Black Cashmere
Black Cashmere opens with a resinous plume of frankincense, saffron's metallic warmth, and a touch of nutmeg that reads more dusky than culinary.
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.
- Amber80
- Soft Spicy70
- Smoky70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- White Pepper
- Clove
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Cashmere opens with a resinous plume of frankincense, saffron's metallic warmth, and a touch of nutmeg that reads more dusky than culinary. The spice feels deliberate and dense from the first spray.
In the heart, clove sharpens the composition while rose provides a dark, velvety counterpoint rather than any freshness. This is not a floral perfume wearing spice — it is spice wearing a rose.
Amber and vanilla in the base soften the edges without lightening the mood, and patchouli grounds everything in earthy depth. The overall impression is close-textured and warm, suited to cooler months and situations that reward projection.
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.
