Carmine
Black pepper opens with a sharp warm-spicy kick that quickly melds with magnolia's creamy floral character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Patchouli60
- Earthy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Black Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens with a sharp warm-spicy kick that quickly melds with magnolia's creamy floral character. The heart transitions into a complex base where tobacco and patchouli provide earthy richness. Sandalwood and vetiver create a dry woody foundation that supports the spicy-earthy accord. Tonka bean adds a subtle sweetness while oakmoss contributes a classic chypre-like mossy texture. Amber rounds out the base with a warm resinous quality that deepens the dry-down. Projection remains strong for several hours before settling into a moderate skin scent with all-day longevity. Ideal for fall and winter evenings in cool to cold conditions.
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.
