Black Jasmine
Jasmine and violet open together — jasmine bringing indolic warmth and violet adding a cool powdery hush.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readJasmine and violet open together — jasmine bringing indolic warmth and violet adding a cool powdery hush. The pairing is unusual; most perfumes save violet for later. The entry feels both lush and slightly melancholic.
Sandalwood and patchouli develop the heart into earthier, denser territory. Sandalwood's creamy depth grounds jasmine's narcotic edge, while patchouli adds a brown-velvet darkness that justifies the perfume's name. The transition pulls everything toward shadow.
Cedar and musk close with dry-wood and skin-warm finish. Cedar adds pencil-shavings structure, musk extends the floral tail. The drydown stays close, slightly powdery, unmistakably moody. Overall it reads as a dark floral with chypre-adjacent earthiness.
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.
