Midnight Black Tea
An immediate plunge into shadow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Amber60
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Cypriol
- Labdanum
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAn immediate plunge into shadow. Cypriol carries that earthen-rooty smokiness — closer to wet bark than to true incense — and guaiac wood pushes a creamier, almost sooty woodsmoke around it.
Labdanum supplies the resinous depth: dark, slightly leathery, with the kind of sweet-bitter warmth that black tea itself can take on after long brewing. The composition stays narrow and hypnotic rather than expansive — there is no bright counterweight here, no citrus, no flower.
Vanilla in the base is a low whisper, smoothing the smoke rather than sweetening it. A nighttime woody-amber that wears close and slow, reading more meditative than seductive. Built for cold rooms and quiet hours.
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.
