Love Affair
The opening of Love-Affair is a crisp contradiction—pink pepper's brightness cut with blackcurrant's tart sweetness, like champagne poured over berries.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Vanilla50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening of Love-Affair is a crisp contradiction—pink pepper's brightness cut with blackcurrant's tart sweetness, like champagne poured over berries. It announces itself clearly but not loudly, a confident start that doesn't shout.
As it settles, the floral heart emerges soft and powdered, with violet and heliotrope lending an almost almond-like creaminess to the jasmine and rose. The florals never feel heavy or literal; they're wrapped in something diffuse and skin-close, more the idea of flowers than a bouquet. The sandalwood and musk in the base reinforce this gentle intimacy, grounding the composition without adding weight.
What results is a modern feminine fragrance that stays close, built for someone who prefers suggestion over statement. It has the clean polish of contemporary office-appropriate scents but retains enough complexity in the violet-heliotrope interplay to avoid feeling purely functional.
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.
