Elegant Black
Pineapple, apple, and citrus create a sweet, tropical fruity opening that is bright and slightly green from rosemary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Fruity70
- Fresh50
- Honey50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Rosemary
- Orange
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple, apple, and citrus create a sweet, tropical fruity opening that is bright and slightly green from rosemary. The heart introduces a floral and woody contrast with jasmine's white floralcy, cedar's dry wood, and iris's powdery earthiness. The base deepens into a mossy, earthy foundation from oakmoss and patchouli, complemented by amber's warmth and honey's sweet stickiness. Vanilla adds a soft creaminess, and musk provides a clean, close-to-skin dry-down. This composition evolves from fruity freshness to a powdery, woody-oriental character with moderate complexity. Projection is intimate after the first hour, making it suitable for casual or work settings in spring and fall.
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.
