Iris Bloom
Black currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into cool iris butter, giving the first minutes a suede-like fruitiness.
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.
- Fruity60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into cool iris butter, giving the first minutes a suede-like fruitiness. Jasmine and orange blossom add creamy white-floral lift, yet the iris stays dominant, powdering their sweetness into a matte, cosmetics hush. Saffron threads a dry, leathery heat through the heart, preventing the bouquet from turning sugary. As the florals relax, sandalwood and patchouli emerge: the wood is creamy, the patchouli lightly earthy, both tethering the iris so it hovers just above skinkin. The dry-down stays close, a soft woody iris with a faint currant stain that lingers on cuffs. Projection remains polite, a scented-breath radius perfect for office or spring brunch, never announcing beyond arm’s length.
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.
