Black Tobacco
Cumin opens dry and slightly sweaty, its green-spice edge creating an almost savory introduction that feels more kitchen than couture.
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.
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Honey
- Cocoa
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCumin opens dry and slightly sweaty, its green-spice edge creating an almost savory introduction that feels more kitchen than couture. Honey arrives quickly, thickening the cumin into a dark, mead-like glaze that sticks to skin and clothes alike. Cocoa powder drifts in next, powder-bitter and dusty, partnering with the honey to form a cocoa-honey paste that muffles the cumin’s sharper angles. Vanilla finally arrives as a soft, slightly boozy cushion, rounding the cocoa-honey core into something reminiscent of spiced Mexican drinking chocolate left on the tongue. The scent stays close, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length, and lasts about six hours on fabric, less on skin. Cool evenings, a thick sweater, and low lighting fit its edible but somber character.
Scent twins
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