Black
Pineapple, apple, and black currant create a tangy, sweet fruity opening that is bright and slightly tart, with bergamot enhancing the citrusy edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Woody50
- Animalic50
- Powdery50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Birch
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple, apple, and black currant create a tangy, sweet fruity opening that is bright and slightly tart, with bergamot enhancing the citrusy edge. Birch and patchouli introduce a smoky, earthy heart that contrasts sharply with the fruit, adding depth and a rugged, almost leathery quality. Rose provides a floral counterpoint that softens the composition slightly, though it remains secondary to the dominant fruity-earthy accord. The base of oakmoss, ambergris, vanilla, and musk brings a chypre-like dryness blended with sweet warmth, resulting in a complex and evolving dry-down. Sillage is moderate initially but settles into a skin scent with good longevity, suited for cooler weather and evening wear.
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.
