Leather Rouge
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites raspberry’s tart juice and saffron’s hay-like warmth, creating a bittersweet, leathery fruit skin accord.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Orris
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites raspberry’s tart juice and saffron’s hay-like warmth, creating a bittersweet, leathery fruit skin accord. The heart folds in orris and iris, their cool carrot-powder sheen smoothing the rasp of pepper while violet adds a faintly ionised, lipstick waxiness that keeps the fruit from turning jammy. Leather arrives early, a tanned hide tacked with patchouli leaves, amber glowing quietly beneath like ember-light on suede. Over hours the raspberry sheen recedes, leaving a patchouli-leather duet where violet’s metal hum lingers in the seams, projecting a low, steady growl rather than a shout. Wear it in cool fall evenings when you want the scent of a worn motorcycle jacket still carrying yesterday’s berry-stained breath.
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.
