L'Eau d'Issey Pure Shade of Flower
Black currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like tang that immediately stains the lemon's sparkle into a dark, berry-tinged citrus accord.
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.
- Fruity70
- Rose60
- Musky50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Rose
- Freesia
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like tang that immediately stains the lemon's sparkle into a dark, berry-tinged citrus accord. Rose arrives within minutes, folding its damp petals around the fruit to create a soft, jammy floral heart that feels more purple than pink. Freesia keeps the rose airy, injecting a cool, rain-washed greenness that stops the composition from collapsing into syrup. As the fruit surge recedes, white musk steps forward, stretching a clean, cotton-sheet veil over the sandalwood's pale cream warmth; the wood never turns creamy because the musk's detergent brightness keeps it thin. Raspberry ghost-notes linger longest, flickering like residual sugar on skin. Projection stays polite, a one-arm radius of translucent petals perfect for humid spring offices or cool summer weddings where you want noticed-not-announced presence.
Scent twins
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