Matière Noire
Matière Noire is Jacques Cavallier Belletrud's vision of darkness channeled through flowers — not gothic, but precise: the moment a white bloom closes at dusk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Oud65
- Smoky65
- Floral60
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Blackcurrant
- Jasmine Sambac
- Cyclamen
- Narcissus
- Rose
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readMatière Noire is Jacques Cavallier Belletrud's vision of darkness channeled through flowers — not gothic, but precise: the moment a white bloom closes at dusk. Blackcurrant opens with a tart, resinous quality that immediately suggests shadow over sweetness. The heart unfolds slowly: jasmine sambac at its most animalic, narcissus with its characteristic indolic edge, cyclamen cool and slightly powdery, rose warm beneath them all.
The base burns low and long — oud, incense, and benzoin over a patchouli that reads earthy rather than sweet. Matière Noire wears close and dense, a perfume for intimate spaces. It is the most uncompromising fragrance from Louis Vuitton's debut collection, and arguably still the most interesting.
Scent twins
In this family
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