Beyond Noir
Pineapple dominates from the first spray, its juicy acidity sliced by birch's raw, tarry smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Birch
- Pineapple
- Birch
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple dominates from the first spray, its juicy acidity sliced by birch's raw, tarry smoke. The heart keeps the fruit alive while jasmine adds a clean white-floral lift and rose contributes a faint honeyed sweetness that softens the birch's rough edges. Birch carries into the base where it meets ambergris' salty skin-like warmth and patchouli's cocoa-earth undertow, creating a leather-tobacco illusion without literal leather. Vanilla vanilla rounds the smoke, preventing the composition from turning harsh, while a quiet bergamot echo brightens the later stages. Projection stays arm-length for six hours before collapsing to a woody-skin whisper, making it office-safe yet present through a workday. Works best in mild spring or crisp fall weather when the birch smoke won't feel heavy.
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.
