Rose & Cuir
Blackcurrant opens with a tart, green-juice snap that quickly draws blood from the geranium’s leafy, metallic facet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Green70
- Woody60
- Earthy60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Blackcurrant
- Rose Geranium
- Sichuan Pepper
- Vetiver
- Cedarwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlackcurrant opens with a tart, green-juice snap that quickly draws blood from the geranium’s leafy, metallic facet. Sichuan pepper buzzes underneath, sharpening the accord to a dry, papery rustle rather than recognizable spice. Heart vetiver arrives grassy but desiccated, its rooty oil sucked outward by cedar’s blond sawdust so the composition feels like pressed linen rather than living wood. Rose never appears as bloom; instead the geranium’s rosy-green sting lingers, stretching a thin vegetal wire across the woody frame. Dry-down stays close, a cool grey sheet where vetiver’s smoke and cedar’s shavings fuse into something reminiscent of raw silk stored in an unoiled drawer. Projection sits at arm’s length for five hours, ideal for quiet office days or cool spring evenings when you want restraint without sweetness.
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.
