Black Suede
Black Suede is a product of its era — a 1980 leather chypre built on the structural confidence of high-oakmoss architecture and a spice-and-leather core that asks full commitment of its wearer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Leather65
- Mossy55
- Animalic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Coriander
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Carnation
- Leather
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Suede is a product of its era — a 1980 leather chypre built on the structural confidence of high-oakmoss architecture and a spice-and-leather core that asks full commitment of its wearer. Aldehydes and bergamot open with the bright, slightly waxy lift characteristic of classic masculine construction; nutmeg, coriander, and carnation follow with warm, aromatic depth. The heart is a complex bouquet of florals — rose, iris, lavender, ylang-ylang, geranium, violet — underpinned by clove and leather in a mid-century masculine idiom. Oakmoss, civet, and amber close warmly and emphatically, with anise adding a quiet herbal depth. A capsule of an era.
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.
