Black Heroin
Madagascar vanilla and almond create a sweet, marzipan-like opening with a nutty richness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather60
- Mossy60
- Almond50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Almond
- Vanilla
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readMadagascar vanilla and almond create a sweet, marzipan-like opening with a nutty richness. Ylang-ylang introduces a tropical, slightly indolic floral heart that blends into the vanilla. Oakmoss and patchouli provide an earthy, mossy foundation that grounds the sweetness. Leather adds a dry, tactile counterpoint to the creamy vanilla accord. The composition shifts from gourmand to a more complex, resinous leather-moss dry-down. It projects moderately and lasts well, suited for evening wear in cooler weather.
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.
