Black Beetle
Raspberry opens tart and jammy, its acidity cutting through the first puff of frankincense smoke that immediately darkens the fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Patchouli80
- Fruity70
- Musky60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Raspberry
- Frankincense
- Frankincense
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry opens tart and jammy, its acidity cutting through the first puff of frankincense smoke that immediately darkens the fruit. The berry’s brightness drops within minutes, letting patchouli take the lead, its camphoraceous earthiness folding the residual sugar into a dry, cocoa-like crumble while nutmeg adds a low, peppery warmth that keeps the accord from turning gourmand. Musk arrives early and stays close to the skin, flattening the earlier contrasts into a single, suede-soft layer that smells like dried berries rubbed on worn leather. Projection stays intimate, hovering just outside the collar for roughly six hours before collapsing into a quiet, woody-raspberry dust. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices fit its restrained presence; heat amplifies the spice but shortens wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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