Eau de Citron Noir
The opening strikes with the bright astringency of black lime—acidic, slightly bitter, darker than standard citrus.
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.
- Smoky50
- Citrus35
- Woody15
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lemon
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with the bright astringency of black lime—acidic, slightly bitter, darker than standard citrus. It has the bracing quality of lime peel rubbed between your fingers, tinged with something smoky or fermented that keeps it from feeling purely fresh. As it settles, woody undertones emerge, grounding the citrus in a way that feels more contemplative than energizing.
This is citrus for people who find most citrus fragrances too cheerful or fleeting. There's a seriousness here, a mineral coolness that recalls stone buildings in summer heat. It wears close and linear, never loud, making it suited to warm weather and professional settings where you want presence without announcement. The black lime concept delivers: recognizably citrus, but shadowed.
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.
