Noir Illuminé
Cinnamon and ginger crack open hot and dry, their bite almost medicinal against a dark plum flesh that swells underneath.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Plum
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and ginger crack open hot and dry, their bite almost medicinal against a dark plum flesh that swells underneath. Jasmine arrives quickly, its indolic sweetness stretching the spice into something leathery rather than bakery; the petals stay low, letting the woods speak first. Sandalwood smooths the edges, vetiver adds a cool rooty snap, and patchouli folds everything into a smoky, earthy ribbon that lasts for hours. Mid-stage the fruit recedes, leaving a warm, slightly salty skin accord where cinnamon re-enters as quiet dust. Projection stays arm’s-length for most of the wearing, tilting masculine-leaning and comfortable in crisp autumn air or a dimly lit restaurant.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
