Piment Brûlant
The first spray is a rush of red pepper—not the dusty cracked kind, but vivid and almost sweet, like crushed pods under summer sun.
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.
- Warm Spicy75
- Chocolate70
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Tonka Bean
- Tonka Bean
- Cocoa
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readThe first spray is a rush of red pepper—not the dusty cracked kind, but vivid and almost sweet, like crushed pods under summer sun. Underneath, a dry warmth begins to surface, faintly smoky, touched with spice that reads more as heat than flavor. There's nothing sugary softening the edges here.
As it develops, the pepper settles into a skin of golden wood and muted patchouli, the kind that smells like dark earth rather than head shops. The spice doesn't vanish so much as embed itself, becoming a warm radiation rather than a shout. It's cleaner than you'd expect from the name, more controlled.
This suits people who want presence without sweetness, warmth without comfort. It has the clarity of a singular idea carried through—pepper as both spark and structure. Wear it when you want to feel alert, not cozy.
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.
