Maahir Black Edition
A blast of triple pepper—black, pink, and saffron—opens with sharp, resinous heat.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Amber50
- Animalic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Labdanum
- Moss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readA blast of triple pepper—black, pink, and saffron—opens with sharp, resinous heat. The black pepper dominates initially, prickling and dry, while saffron lends a metallic, almost medicinal edge. This isn't subtle; it announces itself with conviction.
The heart contracts around labdanum, that sticky-sweet resin that smells faintly of leather and amber. Here the composition darkens and densifies, losing its bright aggression. The peppers recede but don't vanish entirely, hovering in the background like smoke.
By the drydown, you're left with a mossy, woody base that feels deliberately austere—guaiac and cedar providing pencil-shaving dryness, patchouli adding earthy weight, musk smoothing the rough edges. The leather note reads as a suggestion rather than a statement, textural more than animalic. This is angular, unapologetically masculine fragrance that leans into severity rather than 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.
