Massimo Dutti In Black
Violet leaf opens Massimo Dutti In Black with a cool, crushed-green bitterness that immediately frames the composition as urban rather than pastoral.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens Massimo Dutti In Black with a cool, crushed-green bitterness that immediately frames the composition as urban rather than pastoral. Bergamot flashes quickly, leaving the leafy facet to merge with cardamom and nutmeg in the heart; the spices add a dry, aromatic warmth that prevents the leaf from turning too aqueous. Leather emerges early, riding on amber’s soft resin and vanilla’s rounded sweetness, creating a smooth black-suede accord that dominates the dry-down. The vanilla never becomes dessert-like; instead, it buffers the leather’s tannic edge, while amber supplies a low, diffusive glow that keeps projection polite. Sillage stays within arm’s length for six-to-eight hours, making the scent office-viable yet present through an evening. Cool fall nights and early spring dinners are its natural habitat, where the violet-leather contrast reads crisp against wool or leather jackets.
Scent twins
In this family
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