Cologne Noire
Cologne Noire is a cologne with sleeves rolled up.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readCologne Noire is a cologne with sleeves rolled up. Neroli and bergamot do the traditional opening, then ginger and black pepper take over and refuse to let the brightness coast.
Cardamom underneath gives the whole thing a savoury, almost culinary feeling — close to a peeled root rather than a flower. The composition stays linear and stays close; it doesn't develop so much as repeat itself with conviction. Ideal as a hot-weather refresher with more spine than the average citrus eau, and short enough that reapplying is part of the ritual.
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.