L'Ombre dans L'Eau Diptyque 1983 Eau de Toilette
Petitgrain slices through the opening with a bitter-green flash that sharpens the sweeter blackcurrant bud.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Green90
- Rose70
- Soft Spicy50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Blackcurrant Bud
- Blackcurrant
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain slices through the opening with a bitter-green flash that sharpens the sweeter blackcurrant bud. The tart berry facet expands quickly, its leaf-like edge kept alive by the petitgrain’s persistent citrus-twigs. Rose arrives not as plush bloom but as cool, damp petals still holding morning dew, merging with the currant to create a living-bush accord that smells like garden gloves after pruning. Over an hour the greenery softens, letting a quieter musky currant skin remain tethered to a wisp of airy rose, never turning jammy or powdery. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it an effortless warm-weather option for office days or lazy picnics.
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.
