Perle Rare Black Edition
Apple and lime slice open with a tart-green snap, basil adding a faintly bitter leafy edge that keeps the fruit from turning sugary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Basil
- Lime
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readApple and lime slice open with a tart-green snap, basil adding a faintly bitter leafy edge that keeps the fruit from turning sugary. A brisk lavender heart steps in within minutes, its cool, slightly camphoraceous stalk cleaning the citrus residue and steering the scent toward a barbershop lane. As skin heat rises, tonka bean folds in soft almond-sweet vanillic warmth while guaiac wood supplies dry, pencil-shaving smoke that clings to the lavender like a grey tweed sleeve. Oakmoss and amber finish the base with a muted earthy cushion, muting projection but extending a clean, masculine hum that stays near the collar through an office day. The overall arc is crisp-herbal turning creamy-woody, polite enough for work yet carrying enough smoke for an evening bar.
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.




