BlackSoul Ted Lapidus 2009 Eau de Toilette
Neroli opens bright and slightly metallic, its orange-flower edge quickly spiced by cardamom that adds a cool, aromatic crackle.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Musky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens bright and slightly metallic, its orange-flower edge quickly spiced by cardamom that adds a cool, aromatic crackle. Bergamot keeps the top crisp, yet within minutes cinnamon sweeps in, warm and sweet, folding the citrus into a bakery-tinged heart while saffron lends a dry, leathery tobacco nuance that stops the accord from turning sugary. The spices stay dominant for two hours, then musk arrives as a clean skin-warmed anchor, shearing off sweetness and leaving a soft, faintly woody trail. Projection stays within arm’s length for four hours before collapsing to skin, making it office-safe yet present enough for after-work drinks. Overall character is a restrained spicy oriental that behaves like a lighter, more transparent take on the cinnamon-leather theme suggested by its neighbors.
Scent twins
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