Figuier Noir
Figuier Noir leads with fig leaf sharpened by black pepper and cardamom — the green, slightly milky quality of the fig sits alongside a warm spice edge that keeps the opening from feeling purely vegetal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readFiguier Noir leads with fig leaf sharpened by black pepper and cardamom — the green, slightly milky quality of the fig sits alongside a warm spice edge that keeps the opening from feeling purely vegetal. Clove stays close but doesn't dominate.
Jasmine and iris enter in the heart, grounding the spice with floral substance. The iris in particular lends an earthy, rooty character that bridges the aromatic top and the darker base below.
Patchouli and cedar in the base deepen the fig into something more resinous and dry. The fig note here leans dark rather than fresh — think dried fruit skin over woodsmoke rather than ripe or creamy. The overall arc is spiced and earthy with restrained floral support.
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.
