Black Car
Black Car opens with lemon and bergamot — clean, tart citrus that establishes a fresh brightness before stepping back.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Car opens with lemon and bergamot — clean, tart citrus that establishes a fresh brightness before stepping back. The opening is conventional and functional, establishing a prelude to the base character rather than making its own statement.
Sandalwood, cedar, and tobacco form the base. Cedar and sandalwood provide a dry woody foundation while tobacco introduces cured, slightly sweet smokiness that gives the composition a darker, more distinctive quality. The tobacco-woody combination evokes leather and dark woods.
A fresh citrus over tobacco-woody base — the opening promises freshness and the base delivers warmth and edge. The tobacco is the personality note, and the name leans into that dark, upholstery-adjacent character. A practical masculine with a notable dry-down.
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.