Police Potion Absinthe For Him
Black pepper opens alone — sharp, pungent, and dry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Sage
- Star Anise
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens alone — sharp, pungent, and dry. There's no sweetness or citrus softening the edge, just the pepper sitting in front of everything else. The note reads as intentionally austere, perhaps as a statement opener for a fragrance positioned as transgressive.
Guaiac wood, vetiver, and cedar arrive in the base — all dry, all woody, with guaiac's faint smoky character tying into the pepper. The composition never moves far from this dry, slightly acrid register. Sillage is moderate; the fragrance stays in the woody-spiced lane throughout. Best suited to those who prefer structure over sweetness and find most masculine fragrances too approachable.
Scent twins
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