Black Steel
Ginger and black pepper open with a sharp, warm-spicy kick that projects assertively for the first thirty minutes.
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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.
- Leather70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Leather
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and black pepper open with a sharp, warm-spicy kick that projects assertively for the first thirty minutes. Leather emerges quickly, imparting a dry, slightly animalic texture that dominates the heart phase. Almond in the base provides a subtle nutty sweetness that softens the leather's edge without becoming gourmand. The dry-down is a linear blend of worn leather and faint almond powder, staying close to the skin after two hours. Sillage is moderate initially but recedes to an intimate radius within ninety minutes. Best for cool weather evenings or casual wear, it offers straightforward longevity of about five hours.
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.
