The Black Rose
Pink pepper opens dry and a little fizzy — peppery without the heat of black pepper, more sparkle than bite.
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.
- Vanilla70
- Amber70
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- White Musk
- Amber
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens dry and a little fizzy — peppery without the heat of black pepper, more sparkle than bite. The transition is fast; almost immediately the perfume settles into its base, which is where the entire composition lives.
Amber and vanilla braid through the heart and base, a soft sweet warmth supported by white musk's clean radiance. Patchouli adds a brown-earthy thread that stops the amber-vanilla from going purely candy — a faint resinous shadow under all the sweetness. The whole thing wears as a single warm cloud rather than an evolving pyramid.
Close-skin, cozy, and modern. Built for cooler weather and intimate proximity rather than projection.
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.
