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Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-ough heat that is almost instantly sweetened by orange peel oil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Orange
- Pineapple
- Lavender
- Bamboo
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-ough heat that is almost instantly sweetened by orange peel oil. Pineapple dominates the heart, its syrupy brightness lifted by lavender’s cool spike and a watery bamboo note that keeps the fruit from turning jammy. Amber spreads slowly underneath, warming the composition while papyrus adds a papery, green-wood dryness that reins the sweetness. The dry-down stays closer to skin: lavender softens to a clean soap edge, amber glows softly, and a trace of violet powder dusts the edges. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours before folding into a faint woody skin scent that reads relaxed rather than loud.
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.
