Hauts Bijoux
Black currant and grapefruit open with a tart fruity bite — the grapefruit pithy-bitter, the currant adding a dark berry depth.
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.
- Fresh50
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Iris
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit open with a tart fruity bite — the grapefruit pithy-bitter, the currant adding a dark berry depth. The fruit reads sophisticated rather than juvenile.
Iris is the central player at the heart, that distinct carrot-suede-powder tone bringing immediate cool elegance. There's a faint almond softness that makes the iris feel pastry-adjacent without going gourmand, plus a violet shadow contributing to the powder.
The base brings amber, vanilla, heliotrope, and cedar — a warm finish where heliotrope's almond-cherry powder bridges the iris to the amber-vanilla sweetness, and cedar keeps the wood spine clean. Overall the character is a polished fruity-iris composition with creamy warmth underneath, cool-weather-leaning, evening or formal, refined rather than loud.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
