Black Gemstone
The opening pulls you into a tense interplay of citrus brightness and dry, pencil-shaving cedar—crisp but shadowed from the start.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 1 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.
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The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Lemon
- Myrrh
- Tonka Bean
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening pulls you into a tense interplay of citrus brightness and dry, pencil-shaving cedar—crisp but shadowed from the start. Lemon provides a momentary lift before the heart asserts itself with myrrh's medicinal bitterness, a resinous weight that feels ancient and uncompromising. Olibanum threads through with its own austere smokiness, while tonka bean offers just enough rounded warmth to prevent the composition from becoming entirely ascetic.
This is incense-forward fragrance stripped of sweetness or easy comfort. It unfolds slowly, revealing more severity than softness, more monastery than salon. Best suited to those who appreciate fragrances that ask something of the wearer—patience, stillness, a willingness to inhabit something quietly demanding rather than immediately pleasing.
Scent twins
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