Black Essential
Lavender dominates the opening, presenting a cool, slightly camphoraceous edge that feels brisk and utilitarian.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Animalic50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Leather
- Leather
- Lavender
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, presenting a cool, slightly camphoraceous edge that feels brisk and utilitarian. Mandarin adds a brief citric sparkle, but the heart quickly folds into the leather accord, which emerges dry and matte rather than glossy or petrol-laced. The lavender persists, softening the hide with an aromatic cleanliness that keeps the composition barbershop-adjacent rather than rocker-bar. As skin warmth builds, the leather warms into a suede-like texture, still tempered by lavender’s soapiness so the overall wear stays polite and office-safe. Projection remains close, creating a discreet two-foot radius for the first three hours before settling into a skin-whisper. Best suited for cool spring mornings or air-conditioned workspaces where subtle leather signals competence without theatrics.
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.
