Black Soul Imperial
Black Soul Imperial opens with a jolt of dark, bitter coffee—not sweetened café crème, but espresso grounds still warm from the machine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather80
- Tobacco75
- Amber70
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Coffee
- Mint
- Leather
- Amber
- Leather
- Rosemary
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Soul Imperial opens with a jolt of dark, bitter coffee—not sweetened café crème, but espresso grounds still warm from the machine. It's immediate and unapologetic, a wake-up call rather than a polite introduction. Within minutes, a cool thread of mint cuts through, lending an unexpected freshness that prevents the composition from turning too heavy or gourmand.
As it settles, leather and amber emerge to anchor the fragrance in a warmer, more animalic register. The leather has a smooth, worn quality rather than raw harshness, while the amber adds just enough sweetness to round the edges without compromising the composition's dark character.
This is a scent built for contrast—the hot and cold, the rough and refined. It suits someone who appreciates bold gestures but doesn't need constant volume, comfortable in the tension between coffee's bitter edge and leather's quiet authority.
Scent twins
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