Roberto Cavalli Black
Tarragon and bamboo open with a crisp, slightly anisic green snap, more culinary herb than garden.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Bamboo
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon and bamboo open with a crisp, slightly anisic green snap, more culinary herb than garden. The bamboo reads watery and stalky, keeping the herb from turning sticky.
Lavender takes over quickly and dominates the heart, dry and aromatic rather than soapy or sweet. Underneath, tonka bean adds a low almond hum and cedar gives a clean pencil-shaving woodiness. The structure is simple and linear once it settles, projecting at conversational distance with a smooth, modern fougère feel. Musk smooths the edges without adding any animal warmth, so the scent stays pressed and tidy against skin.
The drydown is soft cedar over warm tonka, comfortable and slightly powdery. Reads as a polished evening masculine.
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.
