Boudoir Noir
Ginger and cardamom create a sharp, warm-spicy opening that is immediately brightened by tart raspberry and black currant.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Raspberry
- Black Currant
- Cardamom
- Tuberose
- Violet Leaf
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom create a sharp, warm-spicy opening that is immediately brightened by tart raspberry and black currant. A dense bouquet of tuberose, jasmine, and rose emerges, rich and narcotic with a indolic floral intensity underscored by honeyed sweetness. Violet leaf and galbanum add a cool, metallic green counterpoint that cuts through the floral opulence and provides contrast. The base is a classic chypre structure of oakmoss, patchouli, and vetiver, earthy and mossy with animalic civet and warm amber nuances. Development is complex and dramatic, moving from fruity-spicy top to a voluptuous floral heart before settling into a deep, resinous dry-down. Sillage is potent and expansive, lasting well over twelve hours with significant evolution throughout. Ideal for formal evening wear in cool fall and winter conditions, it commands attention with its bold and intricate character.
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.
