Scarlet Oud
Black pepper crackles first, its dry heat drawing immediate attention before honey swarms in with a sticky, pollen-rich sweetness that clings to the pepper’s edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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 Spicy60
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Honey
- Vetiver
- Civet
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, its dry heat drawing immediate attention before honey swarms in with a sticky, pollen-rich sweetness that clings to the pepper’s edges. Vetiver enters next, splitting the composition into green, grassy threads that lift the honey’s density while letting the pepper’s snap linger as a metallic hum. Civet and castoreum roll forward in the base, replacing sweetness with a warm, musky fur-and-leather accord that smells both intimate and slightly unruly, as if skin-warmed ambergris had been rubbed into cured hide. On skin the shift is swift: the opening buzz lasts twenty minutes, then the animalics dominate, projecting a low, resinous growl for hours. Sillage stays within arm’s length, making it an evening choice for cool weather when you want subtle persistent skin-scent rather than announcement.
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.
