Axis Black Caviar
Lavender dominates the opening, its cool aromatic bite sharpened by bergamot’s citrus edge while anise adds a faint licorice snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its cool aromatic bite sharpened by bergamot’s citrus edge while anise adds a faint licorice snap. Cardamom and nutmeg arrive quickly, folding warm spice into the aromatic frame and softening the initial chill with a dry, peppered sweetness. The heart phase lingers briefly before cedar’s clean wood and musk’s white-powder lift push the composition skin-close, letting leather emerge as a matte hide accent rather than a statement. On skin the scent stays linear: the spices slowly lose heat, the lavender relaxes into a clean barbershop hum, and the base remains a muted woody musk with only a suede whisper. Projection stays polite, radiating barely a forearm’s length for four-to-six hours, ideal for office or post-gym refresh in spring through early fall.
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.
