Noir by Night
A dim-lit, sacral composition that opens already shrouded in smoke — incense thick from the first second, with no real top to mediate.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Oud70
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA dim-lit, sacral composition that opens already shrouded in smoke — incense thick from the first second, with no real top to mediate. The smoulder is dry and slightly resinous rather than sweet.
There is little floral or fruit middle to speak of: the perfume reads more like a slow descent into wood and resin, where guaiac wood's distinctive tarry-roasted character begins to surface beneath the incense. The development feels glacial, intentionally unhurried.
The base of sandalwood, guaiac and amber lays a warm, balsamic floor under the smoke, the sandalwood smoothing edges, the amber lending a ceremonial glow. Overall the impression is an austere, masculine-leaning incense-and-wood — atmospheric, leathered, persistent, and clearly built for stillness rather than activity.
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.
