Red Truffle 21
Black pepper crackles first, scattering sharp sparks across the mandarin’s juicy zest to create a hot-citrus flash that wakes the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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 Spicy70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Fig
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, scattering sharp sparks across the mandarin’s juicy zest to create a hot-citrus flash that wakes the skin. Vetiver then threads cool, grassy smoke through the opening, its earthy edge already bending the fruit toward darker territory. In the heart, fig’s milky-green sap sw lifts the pepper’s heat, letting patchouli’s cocoa-brown loam settle underneath so the fruit never turns sugary but stays bittersweet and slightly salty. The dry-down keeps that salty fig skin, now cured like leather, while vetiver’s embers and patchouli’s dark chocolate soften into a close, resinous hum that smells of rain on forest bark. Projection stays arm-length for six hours, tilting the wear window toward cool spring nights and smart-casual dinners where a quiet earthy swagger works better than loud spice.
Scent twins
In this family
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