L’Eau d’Issey Noir Absolu
Lotus opens cool and aqueous, more pond surface than flower bouquet, with osmanthus drifting in alongside its apricot-leather facet that gives the brightness a slightly indolic shadow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Lotus
- Osmanthus
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Woody Notes
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLotus opens cool and aqueous, more pond surface than flower bouquet, with osmanthus drifting in alongside its apricot-leather facet that gives the brightness a slightly indolic shadow. The composition pivots quickly into a creamier register. Lily and jasmine occupy the heart with their familiar white-flower architecture — lily's dewy green stem balancing jasmine's heavier, slightly animalic warmth. The dry-down is where the absolu in the name earns its keep: a smooth resinous amber settles in, supported by darker woods that read as polished rather than rough. It's a quieter, more introverted composition than the standard L'Eau d'Issey aquatic, built around a central floral chord rather than a fresh splash.
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.
