Dazzle
Black currant opens with a tart, jammy sweetness that stains the bergamot’s citrus oils a deep purple, turning the top into a dark fruit liqueur rather than a bright spritz.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, jammy sweetness that stains the bergamot’s citrus oils a deep purple, turning the top into a dark fruit liqueur rather than a bright spritz. Rose emerges quickly, its petals dusted with the residual sugar of the berry, so the floral heart feels slightly candied instead of powdery. Patchouli anchors the base with a dry, cocoa-brown earthiness that absorbs the fruit sugars and rose water, drying the accord into a muted, woody chypre silhouette. On skin the currant recedes within an hour, letting rose and patchouli negotiate a bittersweet balance that lingers as a soft, suede-like skin scent. Projection stays polite, radiating maybe a forearm’s length for four-to-five hours, perfect for close-quarter office days or unheated spring afternoons when you want dark fruit without shouting.
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.
