Petale Noir
The opening is a green-violet flutter, almost aqueous, with bergamot sharpening the edges before magnolia softens them.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Woody75
- Tobacco65
- Mossy65
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Magnolia
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a green-violet flutter, almost aqueous, with bergamot sharpening the edges before magnolia softens them. It feels deliberate and hushed, like stepping into a dim room where flowers have been left overnight. Within minutes, heliotrope and neroli bring a powdery luminosity, ylang-ylang adding just enough indolic weight to keep it from floating away entirely.
What emerges is less overtly provocative than the house name suggests. The base is densely layered—ginger and tobacco add warmth without sweetness, while oakmoss and vetiver anchor the florals in something earthy and slightly austere. Leather appears as a textural suggestion rather than a full-throated roar. The sandalwood and benzoin smooth out the patchouli, leaving a skin-close trail that feels intimate rather than projecting.
This suits someone drawn to florals with backbone, who prefers complexity over clarity and doesn't mind a fragrance that whispers.
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.
