Signature Halfeti Black Rose
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites basil’s green bite and bergamot’s brief citrus flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Musk
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites basil’s green bite and bergamot’s brief citrus flash. Within minutes the heart folds in warm amber, its resinous glow softening the pepper while clean musk stretches the transition. Oud dominates the base, delivering a leathery, tar-caked wood that vetiver sharpens with rooty smoke; cypriol adds an earthy, almost mineral bitterness, labdanum doubles the amber’s sweetness, and a second musk layer anchors everything to skin. Over two hours the pepper recedes, letting the oud–labdanum accord smolder, yet vetiver keeps the profile upright rather than syrupy. Projection stays within arm’s length, ideal for cool evenings, business dinners, or fall through early winter when you want dark woods without dessert-level sweetness.
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.
