Black Flower
Gardenia and jasmine burst open first, their creamy petals lacquered with ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet oil and a flash of bergamot that keeps the bouquet from turning cloying.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and jasmine burst open first, their creamy petals lacquered with ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet oil and a flash of bergamot that keeps the bouquet from turning cloying. The heart simply doubles down on the same white flowers, letting their lactonic heft settle into a velvety haze that feels almost oily on skin. In the base, bittersweet chocolate and a dusting of patchouli darken the petals while incense smoke threads through sandalwood, vetiver and amber, turning the composition into a slightly smoky, cocoa-laced floral oriental that hums close to the body for hours. Projection stays intimate—arm’s-length at most—yet the chocolate-vanilla-resin trail lingers on fabric until the next day. Cool fall evenings and date-night restaurants give the buttery florics enough warmth to bloom without wilting.
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.
