Just Black
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that the mint immediately chills, creating an iced-tea effect against the lemon’s sharp zest.
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.
- Green80
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that the mint immediately chills, creating an iced-tea effect against the lemon’s sharp zest. Galbanum’s resinous bite anchors the citrus, preventing it from floating away and setting up a cool, leafy corridor straight into the vanilla base. The absence of heart notes means the transition is abrupt: within twenty minutes the green frost collapses into a dry, almost smoky vanilla that smells like emptied Earl Grey leaves sprinkled with sugar. On skin the vanilla stays matte, never creamy, while ghost whispers of mint reappear whenever body heat spikes, giving the dry-down a subtle mentholated lift. Projection hovers close, forming a quiet herbal-amber halo that reads casual and office-friendly, yet survives a full workday on fabric.
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.
