Illusions Noires Au Masculin Eau de Minuit
Illusions Noires Au Masculin is the 2001 Au Masculin recast in shadow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ivy
- Anise
- Licorice
- Myrrh
- Agarwood
- Olive Tree
By the editors · 2 min readIllusions Noires Au Masculin is the 2001 Au Masculin recast in shadow. Anise and ivy still open the show, but the wormwood and basil of the original are gone — what remains is cleaner, more austere, and angled toward smoke instead of liqueur.
Licorice carries the heart, more black sambuca than rum-soaked cake this time. Myrrh and oud sit beside it as a kind of resinous incense pairing, dry and stony, with the licorice flickering through. The composition is more obviously gothic than the parent and a touch less gourmand.
Vetiver and a faintly saline, oily woody base — the house's much-cited 'olive tree' accord — finish the trail. Cold-weather, low-key projection. Better for a leather-jacket dinner than a cocktail bar.
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.
