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Black pepper and nutmeg open together — dry, prickly, and faintly dusty rather than warm or culinary.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and nutmeg open together — dry, prickly, and faintly dusty rather than warm or culinary. There is no sweetness cushioning the spice; the impression is spare and slightly austere from the first moments.
Cedar enters the heart and pushes the dryness further, adding a pencil-shaving woody quality. Sandalwood in the base introduces mild creaminess, softening the overall texture without dramatically changing direction. Musk keeps the final phase close to skin.
The result is a stripped-back spicy-woody composition — narrow in palette but coherent. It sits close to the wearer and evolves minimally, making it a quiet but credible choice for cooler weather and low-key occasions.
Scent twins
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