Tabac Craftsman
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bitter pith of grapefruit and the faintly sour edge of bergamot into an austere citrus opening.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather90
- Lavender80
- Aromatic70
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bitter pith of grapefruit and the faintly sour edge of bergamot into an austere citrus opening. The heart slides in with lavender’s cool, camphor-green stalk, softened by tonka bean’s hay-sweet coumarin that muffles the spices and folds them into a clean barbershop accord. Leather arrives early in the base, a matte hide brushed with earthy vetiver and patchouli’s dry cocoa, trimming the tonka’s sweetness so the scent stays angular rather than creamy. Over three hours the citrus pepper veil drops, leaving a close-wearing skin of grey suede and vetiver root that smells like a workshop bench after the tools are wiped down. Projection hovers at arm-line for four hours, then settles to skin; it fits crisp spring mornings and air-conditioned offices where polish and paper still outrank comfort.
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.