Africano
Black currant bursts first, tart and jammy against bergamot's bright snap, while orange blossom adds a soapy lift that keeps the fruit from feeling syrupy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant bursts first, tart and jammy against bergamot's bright snap, while orange blossom adds a soapy lift that keeps the fruit from feeling syrupy. Jasmine steps in quickly, its indolic edge sharpening the purple-black fruit, then violet lands with a cool, powdery hush that blurs the edges and signals the coming woods. Vetiver dominates the dry-down, splitting the difference between green grass and smoked root, amber lending a soft, resinous glow that tamps down the earlier sweetness. Cedar stays quiet, mostly lending clean wood structure, while musk traps a faint echo of the opening fruit in a sheer, skin-close veil. Projection drops to intimate within three hours, making it office-safe yet still noticeable at arm's length during after-work drinks. Works best in spring and early fall when mild air lets both the tart fruit and earthy vetiver read clearly.
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.
