Le Secret de la Rose
Black currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into a dewy rose heart, the petals still cool from morning shade.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Rose50
- Vanilla50
- Floral50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into a dewy rose heart, the petals still cool from morning shade. The rose here is clean and slightly sweet, not powdery, kept buoyant by the lingering fruit edge. Vanilla creeps in within twenty minutes, softening the floral into a creamy, almost yogurt-like skin scent while cedar provides a quiet pencil-shaving structure that prevents collapse. Dry-down stays close, a pale rose-vanilla musk with a woody stem, projecting no farther than forearm length and lasting about five hours. It reads as effortless daytime wear for spring through early fall, especially casual office or weekend brunch where subtlety is asset rather than flaw.
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.