Citrus Noir
Lemon and bergamot open with a clean brightness that fades quickly, serving as a prelude rather than a statement.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Incense
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a clean brightness that fades quickly, serving as a prelude rather than a statement. Jasmine emerges underneath — slightly smoky from the outset, as the incense and frankincense are already making their presence felt.
The heart is where the character solidifies: jasmine meets frankincense in a pairing that turns both slightly austere. The smoke is resinous rather than burnt, closer to church incense than wood fire.
Vetiver and amber anchor the drydown with an earthy, mineral quality. The citrus vanishes entirely, leaving a clean-smoked floral oriental with good staying power. This reads as cooler-weather wear — the incense makes it feel formal and composed rather than casual.
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.
