Black Essential Night
Black pepper and basil create an aromatic and fresh-spicy opening, sharpened by bergamot's citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and basil create an aromatic and fresh-spicy opening, sharpened by bergamot's citrus brightness. Cardamom adds a warm, slightly camphorous spice that blends with violet's powdery floralcy and nutmeg's woody warmth. Sandalwood provides a creamy wood base that supports amber's resinous sweetness and vanilla's soft gourmand character. The scent transitions from spicy-aromatic to a powdery-spicy heart, then settles into a warm woody-vanilla dry-down. Projection starts strong but contracts to skin level within four hours, with longevity around six hours. Works well in cool to cold weather, suitable for casual or evening wear.
Scent twins
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