Black Xs l'Exces for Him
Lavender and lemon open sharp and clean, the herbal fougère structure announcing itself immediately.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Lavender90
- Aromatic70
- Patchouli70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and lemon open sharp and clean, the herbal fougère structure announcing itself immediately. The lemon brightens what would otherwise read as a barbershop opening, while the lavender stays aromatic rather than soapy, with a faint medicinal twist around the edges.
The heart is essentially absent, so the composition shifts quickly from top to base. Patchouli arrives earthy and slightly damp, anchored by a sweetened amber that warms the dry herbal cool. The drydown settles into a familiar masculine accord — lavender-amber-patchouli — moderately sweet, moderately woody, with the herbal facet lingering longest. Linear in structure, with a workmanlike progression rather than a dramatic arc.
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.
