One Umbrella for Two
Black currant opens dark and slightly tart, with that characteristic fruity-sulfurous edge currant carries before sweetening.
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.
- Musky70
- Fruity70
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- White Musk
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens dark and slightly tart, with that characteristic fruity-sulfurous edge currant carries before sweetening. The fruit reads juicy rather than candied, paired with no other top note so the composition feels deliberately spare from the start.
The heart is empty, which leaves the fruit to bridge directly into the base. White musk arrives clean and slightly lactonic, smoothing the currant's bite, while cedar contributes a dry pencil-shavings woodiness that keeps the composition from going sweet. The drydown settles into a quiet musky-woody fruit accord, with the currant fading first and the cedar-musk pairing carrying the long hours. Minimalist by design — the appeal is in restraint rather than progression.
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.