Pulse of Astana
Black currant lands tart and slightly leafy, its natural green edge amplified by a cut-grass note that feels like morning dew on metal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fruity60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grass
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
- White Musk
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant lands tart and slightly leafy, its natural green edge amplified by a cut-grass note that feels like morning dew on metal. The heart trades that outdoorsy snap for a tight rose accord sharpened by pink pepper; the berry residue keeps the bloom from going sweet, while the pepper adds a cool sparkle rather than heat. As the spices relax, cedar emerges as dry pencil shavings, and white musk sheathes the wood in clean skin, letting the earlier green-fruit nuance ghost through for another hour. Wear is office-polite yet recognisably different, projecting an arm’s-length halo for roughly five hours before settling into a cotton-soft woody skin scent. Spring and early-fall days, smart-casual settings, and any moment you want a rose that behaves like a green-fruity cologne are its natural habitat.
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.
