Black Sun
Black Sun opens with a green-spicy citrus burst — bergamot and lemon under cardamom's slightly piney lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Patchouli55
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Labdanum
- Cedar
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Sun opens with a green-spicy citrus burst — bergamot and lemon under cardamom's slightly piney lift. The cardamom does most of the work, giving the citrus a savory, almost incense-adjacent edge.
The heart compresses to a single note: jasmine, holding the middle alone. With one floral carrying the bridge, the development is short, and the perfume reads more like a top-to-base composition than a full pyramid.
The base brings the real character — patchouli's damp earth, sandalwood's creamy hum, musk smoothing the closure. The drydown is woody and slightly sweet without going gourmand. Despite the dramatic name, the overall impression is restrained: a clean spicy-citrus opening dropping into a quiet woody base, suitable for daytime wear in cooler weather. Pleasant, economical, and a little forgettable.
Scent twins
In this family
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