Black Citrus
Cardamom opens green and slightly soapy, the pod's camphor edge giving the first minutes a cool, almost mentholated lift rather than the warm-spicy register cardamom usually wears.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Birch
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens green and slightly soapy, the pod's camphor edge giving the first minutes a cool, almost mentholated lift rather than the warm-spicy register cardamom usually wears. There's no literal citrus, but the freshness reads citrus-adjacent.
Violet enters quickly with its powdery-metallic shimmer, leaning toward the leaf side of the flower — vegetal, slightly bitter, never candied. The drydown turns smoky and tarry as birch tar takes hold, vetiver pulling things into damp roots and patchouli adding a cool earthy hum. The texture is dry, ashen, almost charred wood with a violet ghost still hovering above.
The overall character is austere and architectural — a quiet, dark composition that projects intimately and stays close.
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.
