Black & Silver
Bergamot opens briefly with its characteristic clean brightness before star anise takes over the heart — a bold, licorice-like note that is the defining feature of this composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Tobacco60
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Star Anise
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly with its characteristic clean brightness before star anise takes over the heart — a bold, licorice-like note that is the defining feature of this composition. Tonka bean in the base softens the anise with a warm, slightly sweet coumarin quality. Leather adds a dry, slightly dark character, and tobacco deepens the base toward a masculine, smoky-sweet register. This is a straightforward composition that makes anise its protagonist — unusual but unambiguous. Those who enjoy anise-driven fragrances will find this direct and comfortable; those who don't will find little to distract from it.
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.
