B683 Marc-Antoine Barrois 2020 Extrait de Parfum
Black pepper and cumin arrive together with immediate directness — dry, sharp, and slightly feral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh Spicy70
- Soft Spicy60
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Violet Leaf
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cumin arrive together with immediate directness — dry, sharp, and slightly feral. There is no conventional citrus buffer here; the opening is blunt and animalic from the first spray.
Violet leaf carries the transition, adding a cool, slightly metallic green quality that cuts through the cumin's earthiness. Vanilla anchors the dry-down without going sugary, softened just enough to keep the composition wearable rather than austere.
The overall character sits in a tense space between raw spice and quiet sweetness. Leather and soft-spicy influences suggested by the neighbour accords make sense given the cumin-violet pairing. A spare, unsentimental fragrance that rewards close wear.
Scent twins
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