My Love Has the Colour of the Night
Guaiac wood opens dry and faintly smoky, with a tar-tinged, almost rubbery character that reads minerally rather than warm.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody80
- Smoky55
- Earthy55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
- Black Pepper
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readGuaiac wood opens dry and faintly smoky, with a tar-tinged, almost rubbery character that reads minerally rather than warm. The entry is austere and singular, with no softening citrus or fruit.
Patchouli in the heart deepens the earthy register, adding damp soil bitterness that complements the guaiac's smoke. Black pepper from the general notes adds a thin buzzy line above. The composition stays narrow and focused throughout.
Vetiver in the base extends the smoky-earthy axis with its grassy, slightly wet-rope character, anchoring the drydown in dry green woods. The result is a quiet, contemplative woody-smoky composition with no sweetness, sitting close to skin. Cool weather and minimalist wearers.
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.
