Black Gemstone Stéphane Humbert Lucas 777
Black Gemstone opens with a terse pulse of cedar and citrus, bright but fleeting, before myrrh takes hold with a resinous, almost medicinal depth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Incense80
- Cedar75
- Tonka55
- Lemon30
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Gemstone opens with a terse pulse of cedar and citrus, bright but fleeting, before myrrh takes hold with a resinous, almost medicinal depth. This is not sweet myrrh prettified for commercial wear—it has the austere quality of church incense left to smolder in stone halls, earthy and slightly bitter. The cedar never fully disappears; it lingers beneath, lending structure to what could otherwise drift into formless opacity.
As it settles, tonka bean and olibanum soften the edges without dissolving the mood. The result is less oriental opulence than monastic contemplation, a fragrance that feels private and uncompromising. It suits those who want presence without announcement, and who find comfort in the scent of old wood, aged resins, and quiet rooms. Stéphane Humbert Lucas builds perfumes like artifacts, and this one has the gravity of something meant to endure rather than please.
