Colonia Ebano
Colonia Ebano departs from Acqua di Parma's sun-and-citrus template.
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.
- Honey75
- Earthy65
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Pink Pepper
- Honey
- Vetiver
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readColonia Ebano departs from Acqua di Parma's sun-and-citrus template. Petitgrain and bergamot open things conventionally enough, but pink pepper appears in the heart alongside honey — an unusual pairing that reads warm and slightly animalic. Honey runs through both heart and base, joined by vetiver and patchouli in the drydown, giving the fragrance a dark, earthy richness.
The result is more complex than most of the house's output: smoky, a little wild, with the honey providing sweetness without lightness. Colonia Ebano works as an evening fragrance or cool-weather daily wear for someone who finds the classic Colonia too breezy. The vetiver-patchouli base is the anchor that distinguishes it from anything else in the line.
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.
