Serge Noire
The opening is almost feral—raw leather still carrying the heat of the tannery, animal musk thick enough to coat the throat.
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.
- Leather85
- Musky65
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is almost feral—raw leather still carrying the heat of the tannery, animal musk thick enough to coat the throat. There's nothing polite about Serge Noire. It announces itself with the kind of intensity that divides a room, built around castoreum in quantities that feel nearly archaic. The leather never softens into suede; it remains dark, resinous, primal.
As it settles, a smoky incense quality emerges, not to tame the beast but to frame it in ritual. The composition stays close to the skin yet radiates an unmistakable presence, like aged wood in a shuttered room. This is for those who find most leather fragrances too groomed, too wearable. It demands a certain comfort with the untamed.
Scent twins
In this family
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