Black Cube
Black Cube opens with lavender sitting alongside pink pepper and nutmeg — aromatic and faintly spiced rather than sweet or soapy.
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.
- Woody70
- Lavender70
- Aromatic65
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Oud
- Magnolia
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Cube opens with lavender sitting alongside pink pepper and nutmeg — aromatic and faintly spiced rather than sweet or soapy. The opening is composed and deliberate, with the pepper keeping the lavender from drifting into softness.
Oud and violet meet in the heart, anchored by frankincense and ambergris. The oud here reads dry and resinous, the violet adds a cool, almost powdery dimension, and the frankincense ties both together with a smoky thread.
Sandalwood, benzoin, and cedar in the base bring a warm, smooth finish. The result is a layered woody-aromatic with real depth, shifting comfortably across cool-weather occasions from evening outings to quieter moments at home.
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.




