Black Caviar
Mint and lavender open with a sharp herbal clarity, cumin adding an earthy, slightly animalic undercurrent from the start.
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.
- Herbal80
- Aromatic80
- Lavender70
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Oud
- Cumin
- Cedar
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readMint and lavender open with a sharp herbal clarity, cumin adding an earthy, slightly animalic undercurrent from the start. Bergamot and cedar lend brightness but don't fully neutralize the cumin's rough edges — this is an intentionally unsettled opening.
Sage and rosemary deepen the herbal register in the heart, while tuberose and rose introduce a dense, almost medicinal floral note. The interplay between the herbs and tuberose creates something simultaneously green and narcotic.
Oakmoss, vetiver, and patchouli anchor the base with earthy depth; benzoin and vanilla soften without sweetening much. The result is a complex, dark aromatic — mossy and herbal with occasional floral interruptions. Built for those who wear fragrance as a statement.
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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.
