Midnight
Opens dry and faintly bitter — black pepper sharpening grapefruit and bergamot, the kind of citrus that reads more aftershave-clean than fresh-juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Caramel60
- Leather55
- Patchouli50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Nutmeg
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readOpens dry and faintly bitter — black pepper sharpening grapefruit and bergamot, the kind of citrus that reads more aftershave-clean than fresh-juice. It announces itself with crispness rather than sweetness.
Ginger and nutmeg in the heart keep the spice register going without warming it much; the perfume stays angular for longer than a typical body splash. The drydown is where it earns its name: leather and patchouli with a thread of caramel for a slightly sticky, smoky finish that smells more grown-up than the format suggests. Linear in feel but with a real shift from clean top to dusky base — better in cool weather than warm.
Scent twins
In this family
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