Intense Pepper
Intense Pepper arrives as advertised: black pepper and pink pepper together in a direct, unambiguous opening that doesn't soften the edges with citrus or aromatics.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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 Spicy90
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- White Musk
- Oakmoss
- Amber
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readIntense Pepper arrives as advertised: black pepper and pink pepper together in a direct, unambiguous opening that doesn't soften the edges with citrus or aromatics. The pepper reads dry and roasted rather than fresh-ground — more spice rack than kitchen garden, more heat than vegetal.
Lemon and sandalwood provide faint background support — the lemon adding a brightness that barely registers against the pepper's dominance, the sandalwood warming the base. White musk, oakmoss, amber, and cedar in the base provide a clean, earthy anchor that lets the pepper diffuse rather than sitting heavily on skin. Montale at their most single-minded: if you want pepper, this delivers nothing but.
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.
