Forbidden Affair
Forbidden Affair opens with a standard early-2010s gambit: black currant and lemon, the former sour-sweet and plummy, the latter keeping things from tipping into candy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Pomegranate
- Raspberry
- Rose
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readForbidden Affair opens with a standard early-2010s gambit: black currant and lemon, the former sour-sweet and plummy, the latter keeping things from tipping into candy. Raspberry and pomegranate carry the heart, the pomegranate adding a slightly astringent tannin note that prevents the fruit from going soft. Rose appears as a supporting player, grounding the fruitiness without announcing itself as the star.
Cedar and Virginia cedar form a lean, dry base that cuts through the sweetness—not woody in any deep sense, but clean and structural. Violet and musk finish it quietly, powdery and close to skin. Polished commercial work: instantly readable, easy to wear, occupying its lane without particular ambition.
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.
