Black Angel
Bergamot and cardamom lead, with ginger and rosemary adding a herbal sharpness that keeps the citrus from reading as simple.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Rosemary
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and cardamom lead, with ginger and rosemary adding a herbal sharpness that keeps the citrus from reading as simple. The opening is aromatic and lively, a spiced citrus with some herbal edge.
Orris and jasmine soften the heart without fully domesticating it — nutmeg extends the spice thread while lily of the valley lifts the florals toward something fresh and powdery. There's a push and pull between aromatic greenness and warm spice throughout this phase.
Guaiac wood and styrax anchor the base with a smoky, resinous quality. Patchouli darkens without overwhelming. Amber warms the whole construction, and the result is an aromatic spiced fragrance with enough woody depth to feel substantial.
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.
