Black Essential Dark
Cardamom opens with its distinctive warm-spicy aromatic character, immediately setting a bold and inviting tone.
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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Sage
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with its distinctive warm-spicy aromatic character, immediately setting a bold and inviting tone. Sage introduces a dry herbal greenness that complements the spice without overwhelming it. Vetiver provides an earthy woody foundation with its characteristic rooty and slightly smoky texture. Vanilla adds a soft sweetness that smooths the composition's edges and blends with the leather accord's rugged character. The scent remains relatively linear, transitioning from spicy-aromatic to a sweet leathery-woody dry-down. Projection is moderate but persistent, lasting through the day with a close-to-skin presence. Ideal for casual and evening wear in cooler seasons.
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.
