Soul Focus
Black Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a matte citrus skin rather than bright sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a matte citrus skin rather than bright sparkle. Violet leaf slides in early, adding a cool, crushed-green facet that keeps the lavender from turning creamy; the two herbs stay crisp and slightly metallic. Cedar arrives first in the base, its clean wood shavings filtering the leather so it reads as suede rather than biker, while amber quietly warms the underside without adding noticeable sweetness. The dry-down stays close to the shirt cuff: soft woods, a muted herbal hum, and a dusting of pepper that refuses to fully leave. Projection sits at arm-length for three hours then pulls inward, making it office-safe yet still present. Cool spring mornings and early fall commutes suit its temperate woods best.
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.
