Soie Malaquais
Bergamot and black currant open with a bright, slightly tart edge — citrus-forward but with an underlying berry richness that keeps it from reading as purely fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Cocoa
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and black currant open with a bright, slightly tart edge — citrus-forward but with an underlying berry richness that keeps it from reading as purely fresh. Cardamom threads through early, adding a warm, dry spice that signals a darker direction ahead.
Rose takes over the heart but avoids the obvious: cocoa and cardamom pull it toward something duskier, less floral and more gourmand-adjacent. The musk holds the base quietly, letting the cocoa-rose pairing sit close to skin rather than broadcast.
The overall character is a restrained, spiced rose with a soft chocolate undertow — wearable but textured, sitting in the space between floral and warm-spicy without fully committing to either.
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.
