Black Bold
Ginger and basil open with a peculiar herbal-spicy zing — ginger's warm dry edge sharpened by basil's anise-green character, with mint adding a chilled lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Basil
- Smoke
- Nutmeg
- Violet Leaf
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and basil open with a peculiar herbal-spicy zing — ginger's warm dry edge sharpened by basil's anise-green character, with mint adding a chilled lift. Mandarin softens the corners.
In the heart, smoke arrives literally: a charred-wood facet supported by nutmeg's dry warm spice. The composition turns smoky and slightly ashy at the centre, with the violet leaf still humming underneath. Suede and leather in the base provide soft animalic depth, ambergris contributes salty mineral warmth, and musk rounds the dry-down.
Overall: a smoky-spicy-leathery composition with green-aromatic lift, cooler-weather and evening territory. Moderate projection. The dry-down is a warm suede-leather-musk that retains the smoke as a defining trait, lingering as a confident skin presence.
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.
