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Black pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that eucalyptus immediately cools into a medicinal green camphor veil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Lavender90
- Herbal60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Eucalyptus
- Sage
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Amberwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that eucalyptus immediately cools into a medicinal green camphor veil. Sage and lavender arrive together, the herbal bitterness of sage taming lavender's sweet-soap lift so the heart smells like crushed roadside shrubs still holding morning heat. Tonka bean folds the aromatics into a soft tobacco-like curve while amberwood adds a clean, musky wood sheen that keeps patchouli's earthiness polite and suede's tannic edge feather-light. Atlas cedar stays in the background, sharpening the wood accord with pencil-shaving dryness rather than creamy sweetness. The dry-down is a muted, close-wearing skin-wood that swaps early pepper brightness for a calm, slightly nutty tonka glow. Projection stays office-near for six hours; best in cool spring or fall weather when you want quiet authority without shouting spice.
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.
