No. 31
Chocolate opens dry and cocoa-bitter, immediately pierced by cold lavender that strips sweetness and sets a grey-green aromatic frame.
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.
- Soft Spicy70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Chocolate
- Cinnamon
- Bulgarian Rose
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readChocolate opens dry and cocoa-bitter, immediately pierced by cold lavender that strips sweetness and sets a grey-green aromatic frame. The heart folds in benzoin and vanilla, letting cinnamon spark warmth while Bulgarian rose adds a plush, slightly jammy floral center that keeps the cocoa from collapsing into candy. Patchouli and vetiver earth the base, steering the ambered opoponax away from syrup and giving the dry-down a dusty, bittersweet cocoa-powder skin scent. Projection stays polite—arm’s length for six hours—making it office-safe in cool weather, yet the chocolate trail feels quietly addictive close-up.
Scent twins
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