Bulletproof
The opening is pure dark cocoa powder, unsweetened and almost dusty, grounded by a quiet mineral note that suggests wet stone or aged leather.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
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- Patchouli40
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is pure dark cocoa powder, unsweetened and almost dusty, grounded by a quiet mineral note that suggests wet stone or aged leather. There's a faint green sharpness underneath, vegetal and slightly bitter, like snapped stems. It settles into something more resinous and smoky after fifteen minutes, with hints of patchouli that never quite sweeten.
This wears close to the skin and stays relatively linear, maintaining that bitter chocolate core throughout. The name feels apt—there's an armored quality to it, something deliberately austere and unsmiling. It suits cold weather and people who prefer their gourmands stripped of sugar, closer to ink and earth than dessert. A scent for small rooms and second-hand bookshops, not for making an entrance.
Scent twins
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