Aramis Black
Grapefruit snaps open with a bitter-citrus flash that quickly folds into the leather chassis.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Tonka Bean
- Incense
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with a bitter-citrus flash that quickly folds into the leather chassis. The heart leather is smooth, lightly sueded, not the tarry black kind; it rides low, letting the grapefruit linger longer than expected. As the top recedes, tonka pours a soft almond-coumarin sweetness that blunts any rough edges while incense threads a cool, resinous smoke through the leather weave. Vetiver in the base adds a dry, grassy crackle, keeping the sweetness from turning creamy and ensuring the scent stays angular through the dry-down. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a skin-leather veil that feels office-safe yet quietly smoky. Cool fall evenings or a smart-casual dinner suit it best.
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.
