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Serge Lutens · Est. 2001

Datura Noir

Datura Noir announces itself with tuberose that refuses to behave—less white-flower sweetness, more earthy narcotic shadow.

ConcentrationEau de Parfum
Forunisex
Released2001
Statusenriched
Datura Noir — Serge Lutens
2001 · Eau de Parfum
tub·van·iri·pea
Rating
4.0
5.0k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
citrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 9 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.

  • Tuberose
    75
  • Vanilla
    65
  • Iris Powder
    50
  • Peach
    25
  • Tonka
    20

By the editors · 2 min readDatura Noir announces itself with tuberose that refuses to behave—less white-flower sweetness, more earthy narcotic shadow. The opening carries faint apricot and mandarin, but they vanish quickly, leaving a heliotrope-vanilla core that reads as powdered and slightly medicinal. This is tuberose seen through a veil, muted and private rather than exuberant.

As it settles, the vanilla grows warmer but never cloying, layered with that distinctive almond-cherry facet of heliotrope. The effect is less garden and more boudoir at twilight—intimate, slightly unsettling, persistently soft. It feels deliberate in its restraint, as though brightness has been intentionally dialed down.

Best suited to those who find most tuberose fragrances too loud or sunny. Datura Noir works in close quarters, an enveloping second skin rather than a statement. It belongs to quiet evenings and people who prefer understatement.

Filed: Serge LutensSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap