Fun Things Always Happen After Sunset
The opening is bracingly tart, almost wine-dark—black currant juice concentrate rather than syrup, its sharpness cutting through without sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bracingly tart, almost wine-dark—black currant juice concentrate rather than syrup, its sharpness cutting through without sweetness. Within minutes, rose emerges, but it's no salon flower. This is rose filtered through nightclub air, petals crushed on a lacquered bar top, mingling with the faint musk of strangers passing too close.
The drydown settles into patchouli that leans earthy rather than head-shop woody, grounded by skin-warmed musk. The composition stays linear, repeating its trio of elements rather than evolving into something entirely new.
This suits someone comfortable moving between dinner and dancing, who prefers their florals shadowed rather than sunlit. It's direct without being loud, nocturnal without leaning gothic. The name promises more drama than the juice delivers, but that restraint may be the point—suggestion over statement.
Scent twins
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