Crying of Evil
Tuberose dominates the opening, its buttery white-floral surge sharpened by pink pepper and cooled by a violet flash that keeps the floral from turning cloying.
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.
- Tuberose80
- Leather70
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Pink Pepper
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose dominates the opening, its buttery white-floral surge sharpened by pink pepper and cooled by a violet flash that keeps the floral from turning cloying. In the heart, sandalwood adds creamy wood that lets rose soften the leather, producing a pliable floral-hide accord rather than a harsh saddle. Through the dry-down, frankincense streams cool resin across warm amber, while patchouli’s earthiness anchors the musk so the base never drifts into sweet vagueness. The scent stays close, projecting roughly arm-length for six hours before settling into a smoky wood-and-skin trace. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual offices suit its polished darkness best.
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.
