Madison Avenue
Black currant and bergamot open Madison Avenue with a dark-fruity brightness, the apple adding crispness without competing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Currant
- Blackberry
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and bergamot open Madison Avenue with a dark-fruity brightness, the apple adding crispness without competing. The opening is sophisticated and self-assured — this is a fragrance that signals intention from the first moment.
Magnolia and jasmine build the heart, rose adding classical depth to what might otherwise run too cool. The florals are full without being lush — they suggest polish and composure rather than abundance.
Praline in the base softens the chypre structure with a subtle sweetness, ambroxan providing modern sillage and patchouli the requisite earthy counterweight. The overall architecture is clean and deliberate — a grown-up fragrance for an address that means something.
Scent twins
In this family
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