Mignon Black
Galbanum slashes first, a raw green blade that cleaves the citrus arc of lemon, bergamot and grapefruit, keeping their zest from turning sugary.
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.
- Green70
- Mossy60
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a raw green blade that cleaves the citrus arc of lemon, bergamot and grapefruit, keeping their zest from turning sugary. Neroli and lavender arrive seconds later, cooling the cut with a faintly metallic orange-blossom steam while pear adds a watery transparency that softens the galbanum’s resinous bite. The heart is dominated by rosewood’s pink, pencil-shaving wood and a clean jasmine-lily duet; cardamom and nutmeg provide a cool brown spice that keeps the florals crisp rather than creamy. Vanilla never dominates; instead it acts like a thin lacquer over sandalwood and cedar, letting oakmoss maintain a dry, shaded forest floor that lingers for hours. Projection stays at arm’s length, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive through a full workday, especially in spring and early fall when its green-citrus contrast feels most alive.
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.




