Lampblack
Black pepper opens dry and biting, more peppermill than warm-spicy, with no citrus or floral counterweight to round it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens dry and biting, more peppermill than warm-spicy, with no citrus or floral counterweight to round it. The minimalist top sets a serious tone.
Grapefruit threads through the heart, bitter-pith and slightly sulfurous, the pepper still detectable underneath. The pairing is unusual — citrus rarely sits alongside black pepper this exposed — and the effect is austere, almost ink-on-paper, with a smoky undercurrent emerging from the pepper.
Vetiver and benzoin close in a smoky-resinous-balsamic register, vetiver dry and grassy-earthy, benzoin adding a sweet-balsamic warmth that softens the pepper's edge. The overall character is a smoky vetiver with bitter citrus shading — projects modestly, gender-neutral, suits cool-weather contemplative wear and quiet daytime contexts.
Scent twins
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