Black Gardenia
Black currant opens tart and jammy, its green-leaf edge cutting through the floral mass that follows.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Musky60
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens tart and jammy, its green-leaf edge cutting through the floral mass that follows. Gardenia steps forward next, creamy and waxy, amplified by ylang-ylang’s banana-like sweetness and jasmine’s indolic lift, creating a dense white floral heart that smells almost overripe. The trio stays thick for hours, losing the currant’s snap but gaining a faintly coconut milk warmth as skin chemistry softens the indoles. Musk in the base is clean and lightweight, more cotton than animal, so the gardenia never collapses into heaviness; instead it hovers just above the skin with a humid, night-air quality. Projection stays polite, a one-foot tropical bloom trail best reserved for warm evenings or layered under linen. Longevity reaches six to eight hours, the white petals slowly folding into a skin-scent musk that still whispers gardenia at sundown.
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.
