Bois Marocain (2022)
Black pepper and pink pepper open with a dry, crackling spice, brightened slightly by bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli80
- Earthy80
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper open with a dry, crackling spice, brightened slightly by bergamot. The citrus doesn't linger long — it mainly lifts the pepper accord and then steps back as cedar takes shape in the heart, adding a clean structural dryness.
Patchouli and vetiver carry the base, earthy and quietly dark. The patchouli is distinctly present without turning sweet — it reads more soil than chocolate, grounded and textural. Vetiver adds a smoky, slightly bitter undercurrent that reinforces the composition's austere direction.
Overall this is a dry, earthy woody fragrance — spice-led at first, then grounded in dark woods and soil. It leans masculine and understated, suited to cooler weather where these textures can breathe.
Scent twins
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