Nuance Noir 2023
Raspberry, peach, and nutmeg open with a warm, mildly spiced fruitiness — the nutmeg adds complexity above the sweet fruit.
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.
- Leather90
- Tobacco80
- Smoky70
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Peach
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Oud
- Vetiver
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry, peach, and nutmeg open with a warm, mildly spiced fruitiness — the nutmeg adds complexity above the sweet fruit. The combination reads like a dessert that's been dusted with spice.
Leather, oud, vetiver, tobacco, patchouli, and iris dominate the heart — a rich, dark, smoky accord that sharply contrasts the opening. The leather and tobacco together push this toward a brooding oriental character, and vetiver adds earthy dryness.
Sandalwood, frankincense, vanilla, and musk resolve the base with resinous warmth. The dramatic shift from fruity top to smoky leather heart gives this composition real complexity. Best suited to cool evenings; not a casual daytime choice.
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.
