Black Eau de Toilette
The opening is a church on fire—dense frankincense smoke cut with black pepper that stings rather than warms.
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.
- Smoky85
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy65
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Olibanum
- Leather
- Birch
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a church on fire—dense frankincense smoke cut with black pepper that stings rather than warms. This is incense stripped of ceremony, made feral and industrial. The pepper doesn't float; it lands with weight, metallic and almost charred.
Birch tar arrives quickly, bringing the acrid bite of burnt rubber and old leather jackets left too close to a flame. The leather here isn't supple or luxurious—it's stiff, scorched, unsentimental. Comme des Garçons doesn't soften the edges. The composition stays angular and stark, almost confrontational in its refusal to comfort.
By the base, vetiver and cedar offer only minimal relief, grounding the smoke without sweetening it. This wears dark and close, more shadow than scent. It suits those who prefer their fragrances uncompromising—less interested in seduction than in making a statement about what beauty doesn't have to be.
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.
