Black Walnut
The opening of Black Walnut is unexpectedly bright—a brief citrus flash that clears before the darker materials surface.
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.
- Woody70
- Tobacco65
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Cedar
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening of Black Walnut is unexpectedly bright—a brief citrus flash that clears before the darker materials surface. Within minutes, tobacco leaf emerges, not sweet or syrupy but dry and papery, almost hay-like. It sits against a backdrop of cedar that feels more atmospheric than sharp, woodsy without turning into pencil shavings.
As it settles, the composition becomes cleaner and more linear. The tobacco never blooms into full richness; instead it stays restrained, almost muted, while the cedar holds steady underneath. There's a faint metallic quality to the whole thing, as if the woods were sanded and left in cool air.
This is office-friendly in the way early-2000s mall masculines tried to be: approachable, inoffensive, suitable for someone who wanted something beyond citrus-aquatics but wasn't ready for oud or leather. Wears close to the skin and fades politely.
Scent twins
In this family
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