Cool Black
Black pepper crackles first, a dry, dusty spark that lifts the bergamot’s thin citrus oil into something almost ginger-hot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Green70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Moss
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry, dusty spark that lifts the bergamot’s thin citrus oil into something almost ginger-hot. Violet lands immediately after, cool and papery, muting the spice while cedar’s clean shavings drift in, sharpening the flower’s soft edges. As skin warmth builds, oakmoss spreads a cool, bitter lichen sheet that swallows most of the violet, leaving a muted mineral-green haze. Clean white musk locks the dry-down to laundered cotton, projection dropping to a polite arm-length radius within three hours. Office-safe, spring-through-early-fall, it behaves like a quiet sporty skin-scent rather than a statement.
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.
