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Lancôme · Est. 1978

Magie Noire Parfum

Magie Noire opens with a sharp, green collision—galbanum cuts through the sweetness of raspberry and rose like a blade through velvet.

ConcentrationParfum
Forunisex
Released1978
Perfumergerard goupy
Statusenriched
1978 · Parfum
san·tub·jas·oak
Rating
4.5
0.9k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Sandalwood
    75
  • Tuberose
    75
  • Jasmine
    70
  • Oakmoss
    70
  • Incense
    65

By the editors · 2 min readMagie Noire opens with a sharp, green collision—galbanum cuts through the sweetness of raspberry and rose like a blade through velvet. The brightness is brief. What follows is a heady white floral core, thick with tuberose and jasmine, sweetened by honey and darkened by incense and cedar. This is not the polite florals of modern perfumery; it's dense, animalic, and unapologetically strange.

The base settles into a mossy, resinous darkness—oakmoss, myrrh, and patchouli anchored by civet and ambergris. The woods are smoky rather than clean, the musks feral rather than soft. It wears like a gothic novel: ornate, shadowy, refusing to be ignored.

Magie Noire suits those who prefer perfume as armor rather than accessory. It demands cooler weather and a certain comfort with intensity. Not for the office, not for subtlety—but unmistakable on anyone willing to carry its weight.

Filed: LancômeSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap