In the Dark
Mint opens cool and slightly herbal, a green snap that cuts through with the sharpness of crushed leaves rather than candy.
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.
- Smoky80
- Patchouli70
- Aromatic60
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Peppermint
By the editors · 2 min readMint opens cool and slightly herbal, a green snap that cuts through with the sharpness of crushed leaves rather than candy.
The heart of nutmeg adds a warm, dusty spice that bridges the cool top to the smoky base. It feels like a single bridge rather than a developed middle section, brief and aromatic.
The base does most of the work. Incense, patchouli and musk build a smoky, earthy darkness with patchouli's chocolatey-damp depth, incense's dry resinous lift, and musk holding everything together. The lemon hint from the general notes flickers through occasionally, keeping it from going entirely sombre. A meditative, cool-then-smoky composition, well suited to cool weather and quiet evenings rather than active social wear.
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.
