Black Gold
Black Gold opens with a hesperidic flash — lemon and bergamot pulled taut by clary sage — but the brightness is brief, more announcement than dwelling.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Woody60
- Amber60
- Oud60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Gold opens with a hesperidic flash — lemon and bergamot pulled taut by clary sage — but the brightness is brief, more announcement than dwelling. Within minutes the perfume is already darkening.
The heart is a quiet rose-jasmine pairing, almost transparent against what is coming, while pink pepper and labdanum begin warming the seams. The florals here are not the subject; they are the bridge.
The base is the work: oud, sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli and cedar laid into a soft, polished amber, with vanilla rounding the edges and moss keeping it from going syrupy. Black Gold is a dressed-up oud — civilised, balsamic, gold-filtered — for occasions that ask for warmth without theatrics.
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.
