Karl Vienna Opera
Black Pepper crackles first, a dry sparkle that the grapefruit immediately juices, while basil adds a leafy green edge that keeps the citrus from turning sugary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Apple
- Sage
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper crackles first, a dry sparkle that the grapefruit immediately juices, while basil adds a leafy green edge that keeps the citrus from turning sugary. Apple slides in next, crisp and slightly tart, letting lavender’s cool soap and sage’s fuzzy camphor stretch the heart into an aromatic fougère accord that still carries grapefruit’s brightness on its edges. As skin warms, sandalwood’s cream meets cedar’s pencil-shaving dust and vetiver’s rooty lift, drying the blend into a clean woody skin-scent with a faint pepper echo. Projection stays within arm’s length for five hours, making it an easy office or travel choice for spring through early fall days.
Scent twins
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