Onyx
Onyx begins immediately in the heart — there is no citrus or fresh opening.
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.
- Chocolate80
- Sweet70
- Fruity70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Chocolate
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOnyx begins immediately in the heart — there is no citrus or fresh opening. Plum and chocolate present together, giving the first impression a dark, almost edible quality. The plum reads as ripe and slightly jammy rather than tart, softened further by the chocolate's bitter-sweet depth.
Patchouli and sandalwood build the base into something earthy and woody beneath the sweetness, while ambergris adds a subtle marine warmth that prevents the composition from reading as purely gourmand. Musk keeps everything cohesive and skin-close. The result is a dark, sensual fragrance that sits at the intersection of fruity, gourmand, and earthy — complex for how few notes are at work.
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.
