Whisky Black
Lime and bergamot create a sharp, effervescent opening that crackles against the skin for the first twenty minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Sandalwood
- Lavender
- Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot create a sharp, effervescent opening that crackles against the skin for the first twenty minutes. The citrus scaffold is quickly stitched with lavender and clary sage, their cool, slightly bitter greenery stretching the brightness into an aromatic register while cardamom injects a faint, peppery warmth. Vanilla and tonka bean arrive early, coating the woods in a thin layer of toasted almond sweetness that blunts the citrus edges without turning plush. Sandalwood and guaiac wood form a dry, pencil-shaving base that stays close to the body, letting the musk dominate the late hours with a clean, laundry-skin whisper. Projection remains office-polite; sillage sits inside personal space for about five hours before collapsing to a skin musk. Works best in spring and early fall, especially under a cotton shirt, where the aromatic citrus lift can refresh without shouting.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
