Black Essential Secret
Grapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into lavender's cool, herbal core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into lavender's cool, herbal core. Cardamom adds a warm-spicy lift between the two, sharpening the transition from citrus top to aromatic heart while preventing the lavender from turning soapy. Tonka bean dominates the dry-down, pumping out soft almond-coumarin sweetness that mellows the earlier freshness into a creamy, almost edible texture. Leather arrives late as a clean, suede-like presence that cuts the tonka's sweetness and gives the base a tailored finish rather than a rugged smokiness. The scent stays close to skin after ninety minutes, projecting a subtle clean-sweet aura ideal for office wear or post-gym errands in cool weather.
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.
