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Black pepper and bergamot open sharp and bright — pepper's dry prickle against bergamot's polished citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot open sharp and bright — pepper's dry prickle against bergamot's polished citrus. The opening is short but sets a slightly aggressive, masculine-coded tone.
Orris adds a cool, powdered suede at the heart, while jasmine softens the structure with a creamy floral lift and tobacco threads a dry, hay-like warmth between them. The contrast of powdered iris with smoky tobacco is the most interesting phase, an unexpected pairing in a designer-level composition. Sandalwood, leather, amber, cedar, musk, and praline settle the drydown into a rich, leathery-sweet base — the praline adding a faint candied nuttiness, the leather staying smooth rather than animalic. The character is a tobacco-leather modern oriental with a powdered floral spine and quiet projection.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
