Son of a Rose
Black pepper and pink pepper crackle open with a bright lemon spark, giving the rose a peppery-citric spotlight that feels both sharp and slightly sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Rose
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper crackle open with a bright lemon spark, giving the rose a peppery-citric spotlight that feels both sharp and slightly sweet. The rose heart arrives quickly, stripped of powdery softness; instead it rides the lingering pepper heat, turning the bloom into something taut and almost metallic. Amber and musk in the base warm the peppered petals, softening the edges without adding sweetness, so the scent stays dry, amber-lit and skin-close. Wear it leans quietly intimate after the first hour, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length, making it a discreet choice for office or daytime travel. Spring and cool summer days fit best, when the citrus-pepper lift can still cut through humidity without turning shrill.
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.
