Blackmail
With no pyramid breakdown, the perfume reads as a unified accord rather than a journey: blackberry stewed against vanilla, with sandalwood and amber providing a warm, resinous floor underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Blackberry
By the editors · 2 min readWith no pyramid breakdown, the perfume reads as a unified accord rather than a journey: blackberry stewed against vanilla, with sandalwood and amber providing a warm, resinous floor underneath. The opening is dark-fruity and sweet without being syrupy.
The blackberry retains a slightly tart, almost wine-like edge as the wear develops, lending the sweetness a grown-up quality rather than a candied one. Vanilla rises and adds a creamy-custard warmth that wraps the fruit, while amber lends a glowing balsamic depth. Sandalwood smooths the base with its quiet creamy woodiness, keeping the fruit-vanilla pairing from becoming too heavy. The texture stays plush and slightly jammy throughout, projecting moderately.
Overall the character is a dark-fruit gourmand with amber-wood underpinnings — comforting, evening-leaning, neither perfume-y in a classical sense nor purely dessert.
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.
