Bang
Pepper hits immediately—both black and pink—creating a snappy, almost electric opening that feels less like spice and more like voltage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Warm Spicy75
- Earthy65
- Patchouli55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Benzoin
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPepper hits immediately—both black and pink—creating a snappy, almost electric opening that feels less like spice and more like voltage. There's a sharpness here that cuts through the air, brisk and modern, before benzoin begins to soften the edges with its warm, balsamic sweetness. The pepper never fully retreats; it hovers, giving the fragrance a persistent bite.
As it settles, vetiver and patchouli anchor the composition in earthy territory, though the benzoin keeps everything from turning too austere. The result is a scent that walks a line between raw and refined—woody, resinous, with that lingering peppery snap. It's streamlined rather than complex, built for someone who wants presence without fuss.
This works best in cooler weather and fits a direct, unsentimental sensibility. Clean jeans, leather jacket, no apologies.
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.
