Black Line
Leather dominates the heart, casting a dry, matte black hide that muffles the amber glow beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather90
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Rose
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates the heart, casting a dry, matte black hide that muffles the amber glow beneath. Patchouli and rose arrive together, the leaf adding loamy grit while the bloom lends a muted crimson sheen that keeps the leather from turning rawhide. As the top recedes, white musk and ambroxan lift the blend, sanding the edges into a clean, almost mineral hum; sandalwood and guaiac wood weave a tight cedar-bent plank underfoot, while a restrained praline dusting supplies faint toasted sugar. Over hours the leather relaxes into a soft, suede-skin veil that hovers close, projecting a calm two-foot radius for most of a workday before collapsing into a creamy wood-musk base. Cool evenings and smart-casual settings suit its poised darkness 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.
