Chocolat Amère
Ginger and nutmeg open with a dry, resinous spiciness, while galbanum cuts through with a bitter green note that keeps the early phase from feeling sweet.
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.
- Chocolate60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Galbanum
- Nutmeg
- Jasmine
- Cocoa
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and nutmeg open with a dry, resinous spiciness, while galbanum cuts through with a bitter green note that keeps the early phase from feeling sweet. The combination is immediately angular and slightly austere.
Cocoa in the heart introduces genuine bitterness — this reads closer to dark unsweetened chocolate than to confection — balanced by jasmine and rose, which soften without fully domesticating the composition. Frankincense and sandalwood in the base deepen the resinous quality, adding smoke and dry wood.
The overall impression is a bitter, spiced floral-resin fragrance with real complexity. Cocoa and incense dominate the dry-down, making this a cooler-weather, evening-oriented choice.
Scent twins
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