Be Exceptional Gold
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that feels almost mineral.
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.
- Lavender70
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lavender
- Cedar
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that feels almost mineral. Lavender lands immediately, cooling the sting and folding into cedar’s clean pencil-shavings line so the heart smells like a sharpened sprig laid on fresh-cut timber. Amber seeps up slowly, warming the wood and turning the lavender from herbal to softly honeyed, while patchouli adds a cocoa-brown earthiness that keeps the sweetness in check. Over three hours the pepper fades, letting the amber-patchouli tandem dominate in a skin-humid glow that still carries a ghost of lavender soap. Projection stays within arm’s length; the structure reads like a streamlined office-ready fougère that works best under a cool-weather collar.
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.
