Black Collection B
Gunpowder crackles first, a dry mineral spark that smells like struck matches and hot metal.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Gunpowder
- Leather
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readGunpowder crackles first, a dry mineral spark that smells like struck matches and hot metal. Leather follows immediately, thick and black, folding the gunpowder's smoke into its own tanned hide while guaiac wood adds slow-burning ember heat. Ambroxan stretches the ember into a grey, ambergris-like haze that hovers just above skin for hours, keeping the leather slightly sweet rather than harsh. The scent stays linear: every stage smells like a well-worn motorcycle jacket stored in a gun locker, the wood chips merely glowing coals underneath. Projection radiates arm's length for the first three hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper of smoked leather that lasts through an evening. Cool nights and leather-jacket weather are its native habitat.
Scent twins
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