K Max
The opening is a deliberate contrast: ginger and twin peppers assert masculine heat, grapefruit adds citrus sharpness, and mint cools everything with a menthol freshness that keeps the spice from becoming dense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Mint
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a deliberate contrast: ginger and twin peppers assert masculine heat, grapefruit adds citrus sharpness, and mint cools everything with a menthol freshness that keeps the spice from becoming dense. The tension between fire and cool in the top register is the composition's most interesting structural decision. The heart shifts gear — leather introduces a new register alongside lavender's aromatic warmth, cardamom adds dark spice, and olibanum brings a resinous smokiness that deepens the middle. Violet softens the leather's edge. The base is substantial: sandalwood and cedar give woody warmth, vetiver and patchouli extend the earthy dimension, Cashmeran adds a synthetic-woody transparency, and musk ties the trail together. A substantial Brazilian masculine with clear character and ambition.
Scent twins
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