Black XS
The opening is sharper than you might expect—sage cutting through citrus like crushed herbs on cold stone.
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.
- Patchouli85
- Cinnamon75
- Caramel65
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Sage
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Cinnamon
- Cinnamon
- Black Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sharper than you might expect—sage cutting through citrus like crushed herbs on cold stone. There's a medicinal edge that gives way almost immediately to warmth, lemon fading as cinnamon begins to pulse underneath.
What distinguishes Black XS is the praline at its heart, sweet but not gourmand in the dessert sense. It softens the spice into something denser, almost resinous, before patchouli arrives with its earthy weight. The combination reads dark and slightly bitter, sugar burned at the edges.
This is night-leaning fragrance from the mid-2000s, made for going out rather than staying in. It wears close but insistent, better suited to cooler months when that thickness feels less imposing. The kind of scent that announces intent without requiring volume.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
