Silver Black
Silver-black opens with an icy citrus brightness—lime and bergamot sharpened by anise's cool, almost metallic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody60
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Cardamom
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSilver-black opens with an icy citrus brightness—lime and bergamot sharpened by anise's cool, almost metallic edge. The apple brings roundness without sweetness, keeping the introduction crisp and modern. It feels deliberate, calculated, like polished chrome catching afternoon light.
Cardamom emerges as the composition warms, adding a smoky, aromatic quality that bridges the citrus introduction to the woody base. This isn't the sweet, bready cardamom of gourmands but something drier and more austere. The transition happens quickly, almost abruptly, as if the perfume is impatient to reach its foundation.
The base settles into layered woods—sandalwood's creamy texture darkened by vetiver's earthiness and patchouli's shadow. White musk keeps everything clean rather than heavy, preventing the woods from feeling dated. The result is a streamlined masculine fragrance that evokes the mid-2000s fascination with sleek minimalism: tailored, urban, designed for someone who prefers architecture to ornament.
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.
