Basic Black
Plum and peach lead a fruity opening, with cardamom and bergamot adding a faint spice-citrus snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Tuberose60
- Mossy60
- Honey50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Peach
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readPlum and peach lead a fruity opening, with cardamom and bergamot adding a faint spice-citrus snap. Ylang-ylang threads in early, hinting at the floral density to come.
The heart is dense and ambery-sweet: tuberose, jasmine, and rose layer over honey and a creamy ylang repeat, with violet softening the edges. The effect is heady, slightly waxy, very 90s in shape.
The base goes deep—oakmoss, civet, and patchouli for a chypre-animalic spine, with sandalwood, vetiver, benzoin, amber, and a touch of coconut rounding things into a warm, resinous landing. Overall the arc is rich, slow, and projection-forward, suited to cool evenings and formal dressing.
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.
