Black Fleece
Neroli and bergamot open with a bright citrus-floral flash that quickly folds into a spiced heart built on saffron, lending a leathery, hay-like warmth that signals the darker base ahead.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and bergamot open with a bright citrus-floral flash that quickly folds into a spiced heart built on saffron, lending a leathery, hay-like warmth that signals the darker base ahead. That dry-down layers sandalwood’s creamy wood dust over guaiac wood’s sharper smoke, while incense and patchouli deepen the texture and amber stretches the accord into a honeyed, pipe-tobacco richness that lingers on fabric. After ninety minutes the jasmine re-emerges as a faint white floral polish riding the tobacco-wood trail, keeping the composition from turning fully dry. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting formal; cool fall evenings and air-conditioned offices suit its smoky-reserve balance best.
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.
