Black Rose
Black pepper and cumin open hot and dusty, the cracked-seed spice immediately throwing dry heat against skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cumin open hot and dusty, the cracked-seed spice immediately throwing dry heat against skin. Saffron folds in within minutes, its leathery floral edge softening the pepper’s bite while reinforcing the arid, sun-bleached character carved out by the top. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy grain acting as a cooling board that absorbs the spices and keeps them from turning acrid; olibanum trails just behind, adding a quiet resinous smoke that lingers like cooled ember rather than church incense. The scent stays close, a skin-bound haze of spice, wood and muted amber that shifts little after the first hour, simply growing quieter and slightly sweeter as the sandalwood takes the lead. Projection remains modest, creating a personal aura perfect for cool autumn days or layered under heavier leather jackets in winter.
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.
