Ruy Lopez
Black Pepper snaps open with a dry, cracked-corn hush that scatters across skin like struck flint.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Rum
- Rose
- Leather
- Patchouli
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with a dry, cracked-corn hush that scatters across skin like struck flint. Within minutes, dark rum folds in, its molasses stickiness quieting the spice while lending a bruised-fruit sweetness that lets the rose heart bloom without turning syrupy. The rose stays low, more petal-steam than bouquet, riding the liquor until a tarry leather seam splits the accord and drags everything downward. Patchouli arrives late, earthy and slightly bitter, coupling with the leather to form a smoked, softly animalic skin lacquer that hums for hours. Projection keeps to personal bubble range; the scent thrives in cool fall nights and after-hours lounges where leather jackets outnumber wool coats.
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.
