Les 4 Saisons Black Sea
Guaiac wood opens the scent with a dry, smoky pencil-shaving edge that immediately signals dark woods.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Woody90
- Cinnamon80
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Lily of the Valley
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readGuaiac wood opens the scent with a dry, smoky pencil-shaving edge that immediately signals dark woods. Cinnamon and saffron arrive within minutes, heating the smoke with a candied-spice glaze while lily of the valley tries, and largely fails, to lift the density. Clove thickens the heart further, pushing the composition toward a mulled, almost sticky incense accord that clings to skin. Sandalwood and Virginia cedar in the base keep the structure angular and sharp, letting the incense smolder rather than sweeten; amber merely softens the edges without adding glow. Wear time stretches past eight hours, projecting an arm-length radius of resinous warmth that feels best after dusk when cool air sharpens the wood smoke.
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.