Privilege
Privilege opens with black currant and galbanum — a striking combination.
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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Galbanum
- Guaiac Wood
- Lily of the Valley
- Cedar
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readPrivilege opens with black currant and galbanum — a striking combination. Black currant brings jammy, slightly sulfurous tartness while galbanum adds sharp, green, resinous bitterness. Together they create an opening that is dark-fruity and assertively green, with an edge that goes well beyond typical fruity-fresh conventions.
Ambroxan, cashmeran, and musk form the base. Ambroxan provides warm, skin-amplifying radiance; cashmeran contributes woody-musky warmth with mild spice; musk softens the impression. The base reads as warm and skin-close without conventional amber sweetness.
An unusual composition — dark berry and bitter green over a modern skin base — more distinctive than the spare pyramid might suggest.
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.
