Black Muscs
Lemon and bergamot open bright and slightly bitter, but the citrus burns off quickly, exposing the heart underneath in less than fifteen minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Violet80
- Powdery60
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open bright and slightly bitter, but the citrus burns off quickly, exposing the heart underneath in less than fifteen minutes.
Violet leads the middle — sweet, candied, faintly powdery — with rose curled around it and patchouli already nudging in from below. The patchouli is the dark, earthy kind, not the chocolate-sweet variety, and it gives the violet a shadowed, almost ink-bottle quality. The texture is smooth and slightly waxy, projecting at conversational distance for several hours. Amber pools beneath, warming the violet without softening its powder, and musk laces the whole thing closer to skin.
The drydown is dusky violet-patchouli over warm amber and musk. Reads slightly dated, but in the comforting velvet-curtain register.
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.
