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 8 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.
- Incense75
- Amber65
- Rose55
- Vanilla50
- Patchouli45
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.
