Black Magic
Galbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that slices through the creamy ylang-ylang and lily, creating an almost icy floral top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- White Floral70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that slices through the creamy ylang-ylang and lily, creating an almost icy floral top. The heart thickens as jasmine and rose absorb the earlier green bite, while peach and black currant add a faintly tart fruit stain that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. Iris powders the transition, softening the edges so that oakmoss can land on skin like damp velvet rather than bitter carpet. In the dry-down, vanilla and amber warm the remaining moss, nutmeg dusts the musk, and patchouli gives a quiet earthy thrum that lasts close to the body. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels made for cool spring days or an air-conditioned office.
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.
