Red Shield
Black pepper opens with a sharp, dry spice that quickly melds with honey's thick sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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 Spicy60
- Honey50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Honey
- Cedar
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Freesia
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens with a sharp, dry spice that quickly melds with honey's thick sweetness. Cedar provides an immediate woody backbone, lending structure to the initial accord. Leather emerges in the heart, its robust character softened by iris powder and freesia's delicate floralcy. Vetiver adds an earthy, grassy counterpoint to the smooth leather and floral notes. Tonka bean, amber, and vanilla create a warm, resinous base that sweetens the dry-down significantly. Musk provides a soft, skin-hugging trail that lasts for several hours. This composition projects moderately for the first hour before settling into a closer wear, suited for cool weather evenings.
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.
