Black Weed
Cinnamon and saffron open with a warm-spicy intensity that feels rich and slightly pungent on initial application.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Warm Spicy70
- Vanilla60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Benzoin
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron open with a warm-spicy intensity that feels rich and slightly pungent on initial application. Nutmeg adds a aromatic warmth that blends with the benzoin's resinous sweetness in the heart. Benzoin provides a balsamic vanilla-like quality that smooths the spicy top notes. Sandalwood emerges as a creamy woody base that supports the spice and resin accords. Vanilla adds a sweet warmth that becomes more noticeable in the dry-down phase. Musk contributes a soft skin-hugging texture that pulls the scent closer after the first hour. The composition evolves from sharp spice to a warm woody vanilla over three hours. Projection is moderate and longevity reaches six to eight hours, best for fall and winter evenings.
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.
