Black Uomo
Lemon and bergamot open bright but dry, their citrus oils stripped of sweetness by the twin cedar frames above and below.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody80
- Warm Spicy70
- Citrus60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Basil
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open bright but dry, their citrus oils stripped of sweetness by the twin cedar frames above and below. Cinnamon lands quickly in the heart, its heat fusing with basil’s green bite to turn the scent into a dry, spicy wood rather than a cologne. The same cedar re-enters in the base, now joined by creamy sandalwood that softens the cinnamon embers while amber stretches a mild resinous glow. On skin the progression is swift: citric flash, five-minute aromatic spice window, then a persistent cedar-sandal core that keeps the cinnamon polite and office-safe. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting warm-spicy in cool weather yet light enough for spring workdays.
Scent twins
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