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Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that star anise quickly sweetens into a licorice-edged warmth.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic80
- Woody60
- Lavender60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Star Anise
- Mint
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that star anise quickly sweetens into a licorice-edged warmth. The heart floods the spice with cool mint and piercing lemon that shear lavender’s camphor into a crisply aromatic breeze, while bergamot keeps the citrus facet bright rather than floral. As the cool top fades, guaiac wood’s smoked-tea character binds to vetiver’s rooty greenness, letting patchouli earth the composition with a bittersweet cocoa undertone that feels coastal rather than jungle. Projection stays at arm-kissing distance for six hours, making it an easy workday signature for spring through early fall. The scent remains quietly transparent, never cloying even in humid warmth, and its mineral vetiver tail invites repeated wrist-sniffing.
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.