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Black pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately blankets the bergamot’s fleeting citrus edge.
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.
- Woody70
- Iris60
- Fresh50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
- Iris
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately blankets the bergamot’s fleeting citrus edge. Nutmeg folds into the spice, adding a warm, slightly sweet resinous hum that prepares the ground for vetiver’s cool, rooty smoke. Iris arrives not as powder but as a matte, suede-like sheet that presses the pepper’s heat downward while lifting the vetiver’s earthiness into something more refined. Suede stays quiet, a soft skin-tight leather that keeps the iris from turning chalky. Oakmoss and frankincense braid in the base: the moss gives a bitter green crunch, the resin a transparent, lemon-peel smoke that extends the pepper’s tenure for hours. Musk shepherds everything into a close, grey wool aura that hovers just at shirt-collar distance. Projection is polite but tenacious, perfect for cool autumn offices or smart-casual city evenings.
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.
