Black Rain
Rose opens cool and metallic, more steel-petal than honeyed, immediately backed by violet’s dusty purple accent that strips away any sweetness.
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.
- Herbal50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Ambergris
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readRose opens cool and metallic, more steel-petal than honeyed, immediately backed by violet’s dusty purple accent that strips away any sweetness. Leather strides in early, matte and black, pushing the floral tandem into a smoky, almost greasy twilight while jasmine adds a faint indolic glimmer that keeps the heart from turning flat. Mid-phase the flowers recede, letting patchouli’s camphorous crumble and ambergris’s grey brine soak the hide, producing a salty, animalic shadow that lingers close to skin. Dry-down stays monochrome: soft musk and a wisp of orange blossom powder settle on tarry ambergris, leaving a quiet rain-on-asphalt chill. Sillage reaches arm’s length for four hours, then collapses into a private leather glove; ideal for damp autumn nights, gallery openings or any date where you want to smell like city streets after showers.
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.
