Fresh Essence
Black currant opens with a tart, slightly green snap that feels like crushed leaves still holding morning dew.
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
- Aquatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Peony
- Rose
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, slightly green snap that feels like crushed leaves still holding morning dew. Peony lands within minutes, bringing a watery, almost cucumber-like coolness that dilutes the fruit's darkness while adding a translucent floral layer; rose trails just behind, lending a soft petal texture that keeps the heart from reading too aqueous. Cedar arrives early in the dry-down, its pencil-shaving dryness stacking under the peony to create a clean woody-floral accord that gradually edges out the berry. Musk sheathes the entire wear in a second-skin veil, turning what began as fruity brightness into a freshly showered linen effect that hovers close rather than announces itself. Projection stays arm-length for about four hours, making it an easy daytime choice for warm spring and summer offices.
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.