Ophelie
Black currant, cardamom, and bergamot open with a compelling intersection of tart fruit, spice, and citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Musky60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Neroli
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant, cardamom, and bergamot open with a compelling intersection of tart fruit, spice, and citrus. The black currant is sharp and slightly jammy; cardamom keeps the opening from going sweet; bergamot adds lift and transparency.
White musk, tonka bean, oakmoss, and vanilla build a base that balances clean musk with mossy earthiness and soft, nutty warmth. The tonka-vanilla pairing is classic, but the oakmoss prevents the base from collapsing into a simple musky-sweet drydown.
The composition shows restraint by incorporating oakmoss as an anchor to what might otherwise be a predictable fruity-musky construction. The result is rounded and interesting — richer than its modest presentation suggests.
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.
