In Black
Neroli and grapefruit open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus lift that fades quickly into darker territory.
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.
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Grapefruit
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and grapefruit open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus lift that fades quickly into darker territory. The heart, while unlisted, is suggested by what surrounds it: the base pulls everything downward with vetiver's dry rootiness, benzoin's resinous warmth, and patchouli adding an earthy, faintly medicinal depth. Virginia cedar keeps the structure clean rather than heavy.
Tonka bean ties these base elements together with a soft, coumarin-edged sweetness that stops well short of gourmand. The overall effect is a citrus-forward masculine that turns progressively earthier and drier as it wears. Best suited to cooler months when its resinous character can breathe without feeling oppressive.
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.
