Jasmin Noir
The first impression is deceptively floral—gardenia blooms with a creamy richness that soon reveals something darker underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Sweet75
- Amber70
- Floral70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Green Notes
- Jasmine Sambac
- Almond
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readThe first impression is deceptively floral—gardenia blooms with a creamy richness that soon reveals something darker underneath. As it settles, almond emerges not as marzipan sweetness but as a slightly bitter, skin-like warmth that grounds the white flowers and pulls them toward shadow rather than light.
The base is where the "noir" arrives in full. Tonka and amber add a resinous sweetness, while patchouli and musk create a soft, earthy haze that wraps around the earlier notes. The result is less "dark floral" drama and more a muted, after-hours elegance—gardenia seen through smoke-tinted glass.
This suits someone who wants floral depth without brightness, a fragrance that feels intimate rather than projecting across a room. It wears close to the skin, quietly insistent, with a velvety warmth that lingers well into evening.
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.
