Jet Black Enigma
Ginger, cinnamon, black pepper, and cardamom arrive together with considerable presence — warm, dry, and layered in a way that reads spiced rather than sweet at first contact.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, cinnamon, black pepper, and cardamom arrive together with considerable presence — warm, dry, and layered in a way that reads spiced rather than sweet at first contact. The cardamom and black pepper give an angular edge to the opening.
Saffron enters the heart alongside labdanum and vanilla, shifting things toward a warmer, more resinous register. Labdanum's waxy sweetness balances the spice without cooling it down, creating a rich middle that holds for some time.
Tonka bean, cashmeran, and patchouli form a deep, soft base — slightly powdery, slightly earthy. The overall result is a dark, warm-spiced fragrance with good body. Amber and vanilla run throughout without ever tipping into purely sweet territory.
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.
