Black
Cedar and cardamom open dry and woody, the spice crackling against sawdust to create an immediate lumber-yard aura.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Leather
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readCedar and cardamom open dry and woody, the spice crackling against sawdust to create an immediate lumber-yard aura. Freesia’s cool green breath slips underneath, keeping the wood from turning brittle while incense-ready guaiac wood takes over the heart, its smoke curling around tanned leather that feels broken-in rather than glossy. Amber arrives late, softening the edges with a warm, resinous glow that lets patchouli’s earthy chocolate undertone read as clean skin rather than head-shop dust. The dry-down stays close, a steady ember of smoldering wood, supple leather and faint spice that projects no farther than a hoodie cuff yet lingers for office-plus hours. Cool fall days and after-work gyms are its natural turf.
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.
