Black Cashmere
Black Cashmere is a serious dark oriental and one of the underrated masterpieces of the early 2000s.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky75
- Amber65
- Rose55
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Rose
- Olibanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Cashmere is a serious dark oriental and one of the underrated masterpieces of the early 2000s. Olibanum, saffron, and nutmeg open with a dry, resinous, spiced intensity — saffron metallic and warm, nutmeg adding a slightly medicinal spice, olibanum a sacred quality. Rose in the heart is solitary and complete: not a floral-arrangement rose but a single stem, slightly smoky, held by the incense atmosphere around it. The base returns to olibanum, adding amber, vanilla, and patchouli — the patchouli earthy but subordinate, vanilla warming without sweetening. Dense, nocturnal, built for the kind of evening where you want to be memorable.
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.
