Noir Obscur
Rum and orange open with a boozy-citrus flash that quickly warms into a heart where Bulgarian rose adds jammy depth while iris powders the florals, creating a velvety-sweet rose accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rum
- Orange
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readRum and orange open with a boozy-citrus flash that quickly warms into a heart where Bulgarian rose adds jammy depth while iris powders the florals, creating a velvety-sweet rose accord. Jasmine and osmanthus extend the floral layer, but the rose-iris axis dominates, turning slightly medicinal as incense pushes forward. The base folds that rose into tarry leather, smoky vetiver and dry cedar, letting patchouli supply earthy sweetness while amber blankets the woods and musk softens projection. After two hours it settles into a dark, leathery rose-incense skin scent that radiates roughly arm-length for six to eight hours, fitting cool autumn nights and smart-casual dinners where a quiet statement is enough.
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.
