Black Essential Hot
Cinnamon sears the opening with dry, bark-like heat that crackles against bergamot’s thin sparkle, creating a bitter-citrus spark that evaporates within minutes.
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.
- Vanilla60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Black Pepper
- Vanilla
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon sears the opening with dry, bark-like heat that crackles against bergamot’s thin sparkle, creating a bitter-citrus spark that evaporates within minutes. The heart keeps the cinnamon but folds it into tonka’s soft, hay-sweet coumarin, so the spice warms instead of burns, while a sift of black pepper adds dusty piquancy that keeps the confection from turning edibleible. Vanilla arrives early in the base, pouring creamy custard over cured tobacco leaf, darkening the sweetness to a chewy, almost candied smoke that clings to wool. On skin the accord stays locked in that cinnamon-tobacco-vanilla triangle for hours, growing softer and more skin-sweet but never acquiring leather or resinous shadows. Projection stays within shirt range, making it an easy cold-weather office scent that reads gourmand-enthused rather than pipe-shop rugged.
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.
