Dark Weed - Extrait Rudimentar
Black currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like edge that bergamot lifts into a slightly sour, leafy brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Rose70
- Patchouli60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Rose
- Incense
- Civet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like edge that bergamot lifts into a slightly sour, leafy brightness. Rose enters immediately, not as a soft bloom but as a dark, jammy presence that thickens the currant and steers the composition away from traditional floral territory. The heart stays rose-forward, yet the flower now carries a dried, leathery facet where the fruit sugars have caramelized. Incense and patchouli ground the scent in a dry, smoky earthiness, while a waxy civet thread adds skanky lift that keeps the base from turning heavy. Tobacco arrives late as a cured, slightly honeyed leaf that folds the earlier currant darkness into a resinous, animalic dusk. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a skin-close murmur of smoky patchouli and cured leaf that feels most at home on cool fall nights.
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.
