De Young Red
Black pepper, pink pepper, and bergamot open spicy-bright.
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.
- Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, pink pepper, and bergamot open spicy-bright. The peppers carry the entry — peppery and slightly metallic — with bergamot lending a polished citric backbone. The opening reads modern masculine before the rose surprises.
The heart turns into a peppered rose. Raspberry adds a jammy fruity lift, jasmine fills in white-floral creaminess, and rose dominates — dewy and slightly powdered, lifted by the residual spice from the top. The composition pivots from sharp to plush.
Sandalwood, amber, and musk in the base land warm and softly woody. Amber adds resinous golden warmth, sandalwood creamy depth, and musk a clean skin lift. Overall: a peppered fruity-rose with an ambery-woody tail, gender-neutral but leaning feminine, well suited to fall and winter date and evening contexts. Projection is moderate and the drydown sits close.
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.




