By Night Black
Lavender dominates the opening, its cool herbal bite sharpened by lime and softened by a faintly milky fig leaf that keeps the accord green rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Lavender80
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lime
- Incense
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its cool herbal bite sharpened by lime and softened by a faintly milky fig leaf that keeps the accord green rather than sweet. The heart swaps brightness for shadow: jasmine’s indolic creaminess is swallowed by dry, resinous incense that smothers floral projection and turns the scent smoky-arid. Cedar in the base continues the dry wood theme, but the incense lingers, so the fragrance ends as a monochrome husk of lavender embers rather than a true woody skin scent. Projection stays close after the first hour, creating a discreet smoky aura that works best in cool evening air when its lack of sweetness feels deliberate rather than spare. Longevity reaches 6-8 hours yet wears like a second-skin veil, making it suitable for quiet offices or solo travel days when you want introspection without statement.
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.
