Black Tear
Black pepper and citrus create a sharp spicy-citrus opening that quickly gives way to floral richness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Floral80
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Honey
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and citrus create a sharp spicy-citrus opening that quickly gives way to floral richness. Tuberose and jasmine dominate with narcotic white-floral intensity, while honey and apricot add sweet fruity warmth. Iris contributes a powdery texture that softens the floral heart, and rose adds classic floralcy. The base combines white musk's cleanliness with vetiver's earthiness, vanilla's sweetness, and tobacco's dry leathery nuance. Development is complex but balanced, drying down to a sweet-powdery skin scent with moderate projection for evening wear.
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.
