Closer
Black currant dominates the opening with a tart, jammy edge that the citrus trio sharpens into a fizzy, mouth-watering snap, while a green fig pulp keeps the fruit from turning sugary.
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.
- Violet80
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Fig
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant dominates the opening with a tart, jammy edge that the citrus trio sharpens into a fizzy, mouth-watering snap, while a green fig pulp keeps the fruit from turning sugary. Violet steps in immediately, its cool, powdery petal aroma folding the fruit into a suede-like veil that erases any candied brightness. Rose arrives as a dry, peppery bloom that rides on the violet’s powder, giving the heart a muted floral lift rather than classic sweetness. Leather emerges early, a matte, ink-tinged skin that presses the remaining fruit down into a dark, flexible base. Vetiver in the dry-down adds a rooty, slightly smoky crackle, letting the leather breathe so the scent stays mobile on skin instead of clamping shut. Projection remains moderate, creating a discreet dark-fruit leather aura perfect for office days or cool spring evenings.
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.
