Black Agnes
Black Agnes opens with pineapple, apple, and birch — an unusual pairing of tropical fruit and a woody-smoky note.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky70
- Fruity60
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Birch
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Agnes opens with pineapple, apple, and birch — an unusual pairing of tropical fruit and a woody-smoky note. The birch's characteristic smokiness is traceable from the start, giving this an unconventional character for a fruit-leaning fragrance.
The heart repeats the pineapple-apple with jasmine and rose added in alongside bergamot, building a complex fruity-floral middle. The bergamot adds lift while the rose and jasmine provide classical structure.
Birch, ambergris, vanilla, and patchouli close the arc: the birch's tar-like smokiness persists into the drydown, creating an interesting tension with the patchouli and vanilla's warmth. The overall effect is a smoky-fruity hybrid with some animalic depth — unusual and distinctive.
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.
