Cœur de Noir
Ginger, black pepper, lemon, and bergamot open with crisp spiced citrus that dissipates quickly, leaving rum as the dominant mid-opening note — boozy, dark, and slightly sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Rum90
- Leather80
- Tobacco70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Rum
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, black pepper, lemon, and bergamot open with crisp spiced citrus that dissipates quickly, leaving rum as the dominant mid-opening note — boozy, dark, and slightly sweet. Leather and suede emerge through the heart alongside lavender, which softens the darkness without neutralising it. Vanilla threads through this stage, adding sweetness that keeps the leather from reading as harsh.
Frankincense, labdanum, and tobacco close things down considerably — the base is dry, resinous, and smoky with an animalic undercurrent from the labdanum. Complexity is genuine here, with the fragrance shifting meaningfully from opening to dry-down.
Best worn in cool to cold weather, this suits evening occasions where something assertive and dark is appropriate.
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.
