Colour Me Black
Grapefruit and bergamot flash bright, almost fizzy, then leather strides in, matte and slightly smoky, pulling the citrus into a duskier register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Amber
- Cardamom
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot flash bright, almost fizzy, then leather strides in, matte and slightly smoky, pulling the citrus into a duskier register. Cardamom threads a cool green heat through the amber mid-section, so the accord smells like dried spices scraped across suede rather than honeyed resin. Oakmoss and patchouli build a forest-floor base, earthy and bitter enough to keep the vanilla in check; sandalwood only softens the edges, never turning creamy. On skin the opening bitterness recedes within twenty minutes, leaving a dry leather-tobacco impression that lingers close for hours, sillage polite but persistence solid. Cool autumn days, unstructured blazer, city sidewalks after rain.
Scent twins
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