Noir
The first spray is all violet and pink pepper—a dusty, slightly metallic floral sharpness that feels like crushed petals and cool air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather75
- Warm Spicy65
- Amber60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Violet
- Black Pepper
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe first spray is all violet and pink pepper—a dusty, slightly metallic floral sharpness that feels like crushed petals and cool air. Bergamot adds a citric brightness that fades fast, leaving the pepper to mingle with darker spice. Black pepper and nutmeg deepen the heat without overwhelming, while rose emerges more rosy-brown than red, grounded by clary sage's herbal bitterness.
As it settles, leather takes over—supple, resinous, neither aggressively animalic nor politely sanitized. The civet gives body without screaming its presence, while vetiver and amber smooth the edges. Vanilla and benzoin lend a soft sweetness, but the opoponax and styrax keep things from turning gourmand, maintaining a smoky, incense-like quality.
This is evening-wear orientalism with restraint. It references older codes of luxury perfume—leather, spice, resin—but wears modern, less heavy than the genre suggests. Suited to someone comfortable projecting confidence without volume.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
