Joop Homme Black King
Black pepper crackles first, dry and electric, slicing through the sweet creaminess of orange blossom to create a peppery floral flash that grabs attention.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather80
- Fresh Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Vetiver
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and electric, slicing through the sweet creaminess of orange blossom to create a peppery floral flash that grabs attention. Vetiver arrives quickly, splitting the difference: its grassy smoke cools the pepper’s heat while adding earthy backbone that steadies the composition for the leather base. That leather is matte and close-wearing, more raw hide than polished jacket, and it rides quietly on skin with the pepper’s metallic edge still glinting through. Sillage stays office-polite for the first three hours before collapsing to a skin-scent whisper of black pepper over soft leather. Projection is moderate, best suited to cool spring or crisp fall workdays when you want spice without sweetness.
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.
