Black Suede Intense
Black Suede Intense opens with the sharp, slightly medicinal combination of clary sage and frankincense over black pepper — a dark and abstract opening that reads more resinous than spicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Clary Sage
- Violet Leaf
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Suede Intense opens with the sharp, slightly medicinal combination of clary sage and frankincense over black pepper — a dark and abstract opening that reads more resinous than spicy. The heart narrows to a precise pivot: violet leaf contributes a cool green note against suede's dry-animal texture, keeping the composition taut rather than sweet.
The base is where the fragrance commits — cistus and ambergris work toward a warm, amber-adjacent density cushioned by tonka bean's quiet sweetness. The result is darker and drier than the original Black Suede, leaning into incense and resin over musk. An intentional step up in seriousness from the flanker starting point.
Scent twins
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