Black Chyp
Black Chyp opens with grapefruit and bergamot — a clean, slightly bitter citrus entry.
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.
- Mossy80
- Earthy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Civet
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Chyp opens with grapefruit and bergamot — a clean, slightly bitter citrus entry. Civet, labdanum, and vanilla emerge at the heart, a dense animalic-resinous accord that shifts the composition abruptly from fresh to dark. The civet adds a raw animalic quality; labdanum contributes amber-like resin; vanilla softens somewhat.
Oakmoss and vetiver anchor the base with a classic chypre-mossy structure — earthy, slightly damp, tobacco-adjacent. The fragrance reads as a deliberate chypre construction: bright citrus top, animalic heart, mossy-earthy base. The contrast between the clean opening and the dark, mossy dry-down is the defining characteristic.
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.
