Fig Fiction
Black currant snaps open with a tart, green-juiced edge that already carries a fig-leaf nuance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Green60
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Fig
- Bamboo
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant snaps open with a tart, green-juiced edge that already carries a fig-leaf nuance. The heart layers a milky, coconut-sweet fig pulp over crisp bamboo stalk, turning the opening juicier while keeping it airy and slightly saline. Plum arrives late, fermenting the fig’s creaminess into a soft, purple dusk that clings close to skin without extra sweetness. Transition feels seamless: the opening’s green acidity melts into lactonic fig wood, then settles as a muted, slightly earthy plum skin whisper. Projection stays polite, a forearm-length aura that survives half a workday, ideal for humid spring mornings or shaded summer patios where you want refreshment without announcing it across the room.
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.