Narcisse Noir (1911)
The bitter green of narcissus arrives immediately, botanical and almost medicinal, a sharp departure from the powdered sweetness you might expect from its era.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Sandalwood70
- Musk65
- Jasmine60
- Orange35
- Green25
By the editors · 2 min readThe bitter green of narcissus arrives immediately, botanical and almost medicinal, a sharp departure from the powdered sweetness you might expect from its era. This is not polite florals—it's the bruised stem and milky sap of the flower, earthy and strange.
As it settles, jasmine and orange blossom soften the edges without domesticating them entirely. The white florals here feel shadowy rather than radiant, as if photographed in low light. There's a persistent vegetal quality that refuses to fade.
Sandalwood and musk in the base provide warmth without sweetness, grounding the composition in something woody and skin-close. This is fragrance for someone drawn to the peculiar rather than the pretty, a reminder that early perfumery could be as uncompromising as it was elegant.
