Black Lotus
Jerome Epinette's Black Lotus draws from a dark register across its full development.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Cherry70
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Black Cherry
- Saffron
- Red Peppercorn
- Violet
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readJerome Epinette's Black Lotus draws from a dark register across its full development. Black cherry, red peppercorn, and saffron in the opening create a bruised, spicy-fruity accord — the cherry dark rather than bright, the pepper providing heat, the saffron its characteristic metallic warmth. Rose and violet in the heart arrive with more restraint than their tropical counterparts might suggest; both notes read here as dark and powdery, the musk note binding them into a close, intimate accord. Patchouli, labdanum, and leather in the base extend that darkness through the dry-down in a resinous, animalic finish. A fragrance that earns its enigmatic name.
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.
