Under the Stars
Under the Stars opens with a sharp snap of black pepper that feels brisk and immediate, like stepping into cold night air.
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.
- Leather75
- Warm Spicy65
- Balsamic60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Leather
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readUnder the Stars opens with a sharp snap of black pepper that feels brisk and immediate, like stepping into cold night air. The leather arrives quickly—smooth and slightly smoky, with none of the medicinal harshness some leather notes carry. It sits close to the skin, warm but never heavy.
As it settles, labdanum rounds everything out with a resinous sweetness that keeps the composition from turning austere. The pepper fades but never disappears entirely, leaving a subtle prickle beneath the leather's surface. The overall effect is intimate and slightly austere, like a worn jacket over bare skin.
This wears best in cooler weather on someone who prefers quiet intensity to projection. It's minimal in the way Margiela designs clothes—stripped down, precise, a little enigmatic. The kind of fragrance that makes people lean closer rather than announcing itself across a room.
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.
