Vertige
Black currant and grapefruit lead with a tart, slightly jammy freshness, the grapefruit providing brightness while the currant adds a darker, almost vegetal sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Freesia
- Iris
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit lead with a tart, slightly jammy freshness, the grapefruit providing brightness while the currant adds a darker, almost vegetal sweetness. Freesia and rose enter cleanly in the heart, with iris contributing a cool, powdery dryness that tempers the fruit.
Sandalwood and patchouli anchor the dry-down — warm and slightly earthy without becoming heavy. Benzoin adds a hint of resin and mild sweetness, while musk keeps the finish soft and close-wearing. The overall arc moves from sharp-fruity to floral-powdery to softly earthy, a legible and well-paced structure. Suits casual daytime to early evening wear across mild seasons.
Projection is moderate; this wears within personal space.
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.
