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 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.
- Black Pepper90
- Amber40
- Cedar35
- Musk35
- Oakmoss35
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.