Birch & Black Pepper
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, resinous crackle that immediately coats the birch tar beneath it, creating a charcoal-smoked leather accord.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Black Pepper
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, resinous crackle that immediately coats the birch tar beneath it, creating a charcoal-smoked leather accord. Birch’s creosote edge keeps the spice from turning sweet, while cardamom’s cool green flash slides between the two, softening the tarry bite without adding sugar. Mandarin is barely audible; its citrus oil evaporates in seconds, leaving only a faint aldehydic shimmer that keeps the smoke airborne. Vanilla arrives late, not custard-rich but wood-smoked, stretching the leather into a matte, grey suede that clings to skin for hours. Patchouli and musk stay low, supplying a quiet earth hum that prevents the vanilla from blooming; the result is a tight, tar-laced glove rather than a cozy blanket. Projection remains close; it trails best in cool weather and feels most at home under wool or denim.
Scent twins
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