Noir Epices
A spare opening — orange alone, slightly sweet and zesty, more a citrus glow than a sharp lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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 Spicy85
- Cinnamon60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA spare opening — orange alone, slightly sweet and zesty, more a citrus glow than a sharp lift. It reads as an introduction rather than a statement, brief before the spices arrive.
The heart is the focus: cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg together, dense and pungent without being hot. This is the spice cabinet rendered as a chord — warm, woody-edged, faintly resinous from the clove. The orange continues to glow underneath, sweetening the spice without going gourmand.
The base is just sandalwood and patchouli, restrained and earthy, letting the spices remain the dominant register through the dry-down. Overall character is a tightly composed warm-spicy oriental — focused, projecting steadily, and best suited to cooler-weather evening wear.
Scent twins
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