Vert insight
Black currant snaps open with a tart, leafy-green bite that feels like crushed buds still holding morning dew.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Mimosa
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant snaps open with a tart, leafy-green bite that feels like crushed buds still holding morning dew. Mimosa quickly softens the edges, pouring fluffy, pollen-yellow florals that blur the fruit into a sun-warmed, hay-like haze. Vetiver slides in underneath, drying the accord with rooty, slightly smoky stalks while clean white musk stretches the finish into a pale, woody skin-scent. Over hours the green sharpness relaxes, leaving a quiet mulch of earth-toned vetiver dusted with faint mimosa pollen. Projection stays close to the body, perfect for spring office days when you want green freshness without shouting.
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.