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 12 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.
- Cinnamon50
- Jasmine50
- Rose50
- Amber50
- Vetiver50
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.