Black
Black opens with pear and bergamot together — bright, slightly watery, and clean rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh65
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack opens with pear and bergamot together — bright, slightly watery, and clean rather than sweet. The pear reads more crisp than jammy, and the bergamot keeps everything from feeling heavy from the start.
Freesia carries the heart, adding a light white-floral quality that complements rather than replaces the opening fruit. It gives the composition a brief, airy softness before the base takes over.
Cedar, patchouli, and musk ground the whole thing in a straightforward woody-clean finish. The patchouli is restrained at this level, contributing texture without darkness. The result is a fresh, uncomplicated fragrance — casual and wearable across seasons, designed for everyday use rather than special occasions.
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.
