Valentino Uomo Edition Noire
Bergamot opens briefly, mostly as a citrus splash before the gourmand structure takes over.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Cedar
- Hazelnut
- Chocolate
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly, mostly as a citrus splash before the gourmand structure takes over. Within minutes the composition shifts to its main idea.
The heart is leather over hazelnut, with cedar lending a dry frame. The hazelnut reads roasted and unsweetened, lending the leather a bitter-cocoa edge rather than candied warmth. Cedar keeps the leather supple instead of tarry.
Chocolate sits at the base, dark and dry rather than fudgy, melting into the leather to produce a continuous warm-bitter accord that's the whole identity of the scent. There's almost no separation between heart and base — the structure is essentially linear after the opening. A cool-weather evening scent, masculine-leaning, more wearable than the chocolate listing suggests.
Scent twins
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.
