Black Gold
Black Gold opens with a warm spice trio — cinnamon, lavender, and nutmeg — that reads as kitchen-warm rather than perfumery-sharp, the nutmeg giving a soft, slightly peppery quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Nutmeg
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Gold opens with a warm spice trio — cinnamon, lavender, and nutmeg — that reads as kitchen-warm rather than perfumery-sharp, the nutmeg giving a soft, slightly peppery quality. The floral heart is dense: jasmine and rose anchored by patchouli and violet, creating a dark floral accord with real depth.
Leather, vetiver, and amber in the base introduce a dry, slightly mineral quality that pushes the composition firmly in a more austere direction; the general list's marine note adds a subtle aquatic undertone that creates unexpected contrast. Black Gold doesn't show all its angles at once — it layers and unfolds with wear, which is exactly what the price tier demands.
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.
