Whispers of Truth Noir
Grapefruit slices through suede and labdanum in a bright, mineral opening that quickly darkens as smoke and cypriol curl around the citrus edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Suede
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit slices through suede and labdanum in a bright, mineral opening that quickly darkens as smoke and cypriol curl around the citrus edges. The heart thickens: vetiver sharpens the birch-tar leather core while rose adds a faintly sweet, dusty counterweight that keeps the accord from turning purely bitter. Caramel begins to bloom late in the heart, softening birch smoke and pulling the composition toward an ambery warmth that settles on skin. By dry-down, moss and musk frame a low-lit leather-amber haze with a salted caramel sheen; the earlier grapefruit flash is only a memory. Projection stays close, radiating a smoky leather skin-scent for six-to-eight hours, ideal for cool evenings or layered under wool.
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.
