Urban Hero
Black Pepper snaps open with dry, crackling heat that immediately etches a mineral edge across the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather90
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Leather
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with dry, crackling heat that immediately etches a mineral edge across the skin. Vetiver arrives within minutes, its grassy root turning the pepper’s spark into a smoldering, earthy hum that sits low and close to the body. Leather follows, not glossy but sun-baked and cracked, pulling the vetiver downward while Ambergris adds a faint salt-skin glow that feels like yesterday’s dried sweat on a leather jacket. The scent stays narrow, refusing to bloom; instead it compresses into a dark, matte ribbon that hovers just above the wrist for four hours before collapsing into a whisper of hide and warm musk. Projection stays intimate, ideal for after-work bars or midnight subway in cool weather.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
