Thé Noir 29 Le Labo 2015 Eau de Parfum
Bergamot opens with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately gets pulled into black tea's dry, tannic depth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Tea
- Vetiver
- Cedarwood
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately gets pulled into black tea's dry, tannic depth. The tea accord carries a subtle hay-like sweetness that the vetiver cuts with raw, rooty smoke, while cedarwood adds splintery dryness that keeps the composition angular rather than plush. As it settles, the tea softens into a muted leather nuance and the vetiver loses its green bite, letting the cedar's pencil-shaving facet dominate the woody backdrop. Clean white musk emerges late, sheathing the woods in a laundered veil that reduces projection but extends wear. Sillage stays close; the scent works best in cool weather, office through evening, where its quiet smoke reads polished rather than provocative.
Scent twins
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