Eau Noire
Eau Noire opens with a rush of medicinal aromatics—sage and thyme that feel almost apothecary-sharp, bitter-green and unsweetened.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Lavender55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Thyme
- Clary Sage
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Virginia Cedar
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readEau Noire opens with a rush of medicinal aromatics—sage and thyme that feel almost apothecary-sharp, bitter-green and unsweetened. Within minutes, lavender emerges not as the familiar soapy note but something darker, bruised by saffron's metallic warmth and grounded by cedarwood. There's an unexpected thread of coffee running through the heart, lending a roasted, slightly burnt quality that keeps the composition from veering into conventional fougère territory.
As it settles, leather and vanilla provide an animalic softness, while violet adds a powdery, almost iris-like refinement. The overall effect is oddly urban—a study in contrasts between herbal austerity and plush comfort. Eau Noire suits those drawn to lavender's less domesticated side, where familiarity meets strangeness. It wears close but insistent, like ink stains on good paper.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
