Mr. Sharp
Black pepper snaps first, its dry heat crackling against bergamot's terse citrus edge, creating an immediate aromatic-spark tension.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Cedar
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps first, its dry heat crackling against bergamot's terse citrus edge, creating an immediate aromatic-spark tension. Sage enters early, folding a cool, slightly bitter green layer that muffles the pepper while cedar adds splinter-dry wood, steering the accord away from kitchen spice toward barbershop soap. Tonka bean slides in within twenty minutes, sweetening the cedar with soft almond facets and a faint tobacco echo, letting the composition relax into a clean skin scent. Amber stays linear: the opening bite softens but never vanishes, and the dry-down remains a peppered, lightly creamy wood rather than a full gourmand. Projection sits at arm's length for three hours before tucking close; office-safe yet brisk enough for outdoor spring walks.
Scent twins
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