Noir Gabardine
Noir Gabardine opens with a cold green snap — galbanum and bergamot, sharp as wet stems against a pressed lapel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Sandalwood
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readNoir Gabardine opens with a cold green snap — galbanum and bergamot, sharp as wet stems against a pressed lapel. Ginger sparks the heart and pushes everything dry, then sandalwood draws the structure inward.
The drydown is where the fragrance earns its name: tonka softens into amber and a pale, slightly powdered musk that reads like worsted wool warmed against skin. There is no sweetness, no flourish.
Men's tailoring translated into scent — austere on first wear, more confidential as it settles. Office hours, cool weather, evenings when discretion is the point.
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.
