Betty Barclay in LOVE
Black currant launches tart and jammy, its purple acidity pinning the top for a solid ten minutes.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Heliotrope
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant launches tart and jammy, its purple acidity pinning the top for a solid ten minutes. Heliotrope steps in next, softening the fruit with marzipan dust while freesia keeps the heart airy, stopping the almond nuance from turning pastry. As the flowers recede, sandalwood supplies creamy blond wood, amber spreads a mild caramel glow, and clean white musk flattens the base into skin-toned suede. The transition is steady rather than layered: fruit folds into nutty florals, then into a muted woody haze that sits close but lasts the workday. Sillage stays office-polite, projecting an arm’s-length bubble for about four hours before collapsing into a clean musk skin scent. Cool spring mornings and weekday cafés fit its polite volume and soft fruity-wood character.
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.
