Cerruti 1881 Black
Lavender opens cleanly aromatic, joined quickly by black pepper that gives the entrance a dry warmth rather than a fresh herbal lift.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Nutty50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
- Guaiac Wood
- Black Pepper
- Guaiac Wood
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cleanly aromatic, joined quickly by black pepper that gives the entrance a dry warmth rather than a fresh herbal lift. The structure feels minimalist from the start — a few elements working in tight arrangement.
Nutmeg in the heart adds a soft brown spice, and cedar lends a pencil-shavings dryness that bridges into the woody base without warmth or sweetness. The progression is linear, with each element feeding directly into the next.
Guaiac wood in the drydown is the defining note — smoky, slightly tarry, and resinous. The overall character is a dark aromatic-woody masculine, lavender-led at the top and finishing on a smoldering guaiac base, with very little floral or sweet counterweight to soften the edges.
Scent twins
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