Serpent Bohème
A tart black currant opening lands first with a fruity-green sharpness, slightly catty and very recognisable, before quickly handing off to the base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Balsamic60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA tart black currant opening lands first with a fruity-green sharpness, slightly catty and very recognisable, before quickly handing off to the base.
With no declared heart, the composition moves directly into its woody-balsamic foundation: dry, earthy patchouli takes the lead, with labdanum lending a leathery resinous warmth and white musk smoothing the edges. Sandalwood adds a creamy backbone, and a hint of mandarin from the general notes brightens the middle.
The drydown is patchouli-dominant with a balsamic-amber sweetness and a faint smoky undertone. The overall character is a modern fruity-chypre with a warm, slightly animalic close, projecting moderately for the first hours then settling into a long woody-balsamic skin scent. Suited to cool evenings and date contexts.
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.
