BlackSoul Imperial Ted Lapidus 2009 Eau de Toilette
Coffee opens sharp and roasted, cutting through immediately with a dry, slightly bitter quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather90
- Oud80
- Amber60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Citrus Fruits
- Coffee
- Mint
- Saffron
- Leather
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee opens sharp and roasted, cutting through immediately with a dry, slightly bitter quality. The mint in the heart adds an unexpected cool edge — not fresh in a typical aquatic sense, but brisk against the smoke and warmth building beneath it.
Saffron brings a metallic-spicy thread that connects the top to the base without being obvious. Leather arrives with a firm, dry character — no sweetness here — while oud deepens the composition into darker, woody-resinous territory. Amber rounds the base with warmth.
The overall effect is a dark, smoky oriental: coffee and mint over leather and oud is an unusual combination that feels deliberately stark. Dense and close-wearing.
Scent twins
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