Cassis Ambre
Amber and black currant share the opening — an unusual pairing where the amber's warm resinous quality blunts the currant's catty bite, leaving a fruit-jam impression rather than a sharp green one.
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.
- Sweet55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAmber and black currant share the opening — an unusual pairing where the amber's warm resinous quality blunts the currant's catty bite, leaving a fruit-jam impression rather than a sharp green one. The start reads dense from the first minute.
Jasmine threads through the middle, creamy and rounded against the lingering amber. There is little floral lift here; instead the jasmine reinforces the perfume's sweet, sticky body.
Sandalwood and vanilla close it down, the sandalwood lending a milky-woody finish while vanilla deepens the gourmand cast. Overall the scent reads warm, fruity-vanillic, with amber doing most of the structural work. Projection is moderate, longevity steady, and the drydown holds skin-close for hours after the first impression fades.
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.
