Dark
Dark opens with the scent of bittersweet cocoa powder, dusty and unsweetened, like stepping into a patisserie kitchen before the sugar arrives.
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.
- Cinnamon55
- Vanilla45
- Patchouli30
- Black Pepper25
- Amber15
By the editors · 2 min readDark opens with the scent of bittersweet cocoa powder, dusty and unsweetened, like stepping into a patisserie kitchen before the sugar arrives. The cinnamon emerges quickly, not the red-hot candy kind but something deeper and woodier, threading through toasted hazelnut that adds an almost savoury warmth. This isn't chocolate as confection—it's the raw materials laid bare.
As it settles, vanilla rounds the edges without softening them entirely. The composition maintains a certain dryness, never tipping into gourmand excess despite the temptation of its components. There's an austere quality here, cocoa nib rather than truffle.
This suits those drawn to the idea of chocolate in perfume but wary of sticky sweetness. It wears close, intimate, more contemplative than playful. A scent for evenings when comfort doesn't require brightness.
