Fleur Noire
Bergamot flashes bright and fleeting, clearing space for ylang-ylang’s buttery banana facet and jasmine’s indolic lift.
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.
- Smoky80
- Yellow Floral70
- Balsamic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and fleeting, clearing space for ylang-ylang’s buttery banana facet and jasmine’s indolic lift. The white/yellow floral tandem stays dense and creamy, almost oily, until sandalwood arrives to soften the edges with milk-cream woods while incense and frankincense thread a dry, resinous smoke through the petals. Vanilla warms the base, patchouli adds cocoa-brown earth, and the overall accord reads as a dusk-purple floral smudged by church-pew resins rather than a true gothic noir. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, tilting slightly sweeter on fabric; cool fall evenings or dim restaurants fit its smoky floral character best.
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.
