Onyx
Onyx opens with lavender and bergamot over a faint anise undertone, establishing itself as a masculine aromatic before the real character arrives.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy80
- Lavender70
- Leather70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Cardamom
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readOnyx opens with lavender and bergamot over a faint anise undertone, establishing itself as a masculine aromatic before the real character arrives. Basil sharpens the heart while cardamom adds complexity, but neither note stays prominent for long — the base is the point here.
Oakmoss, leather, benzoin, and patchouli build a dense, slightly medicinal foundation with real depth. Vetiver and sandalwood keep it from tipping into pure old-school heaviness. This is an evening fragrance: dark without being difficult, and nearly archaic in the best sense. (Sold as Silver Black outside North America.)
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.
