Black Tag Intense 2022
A heavier, spiced take on the classic fougère template.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Lavender70
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Sage
- Lavender
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA heavier, spiced take on the classic fougère template. Cardamom and pink pepper give the opening a dry, aromatic warmth that bergamot keeps from feeling oppressive. The heart softens — apple adds fruity sweetness to balance the herbal sage and lavender, while vanilla pulls everything toward comfort.
Vetiver and patchouli anchor the base in a clean, slightly earthy register, tonka bean adding a caramelised sweetness that ties the structure together. The result is coherent and familiar, calling back to 1990s aromatic masculines updated with contemporary spice.
A well-constructed masculine for cool evenings; the 10-note pyramid gives it more character than most Zara releases.
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.
