Red Shoes
Black currant and grapefruit open the composition with a tart, slightly catty bitterness — the fruit reading more like cassis bud than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit open the composition with a tart, slightly catty bitterness — the fruit reading more like cassis bud than juice. The opening is sharp and very short.
Ginger arrives with an immediate, cool burn, joined by pink pepper for a dry crackle and damask rose for a wine-like depth. The rose is held in tension between the spice and the fruit, never going soft or jammy.
The base is patchouli-led, earthy and slightly chocolate-tinged, with a clean musk smoothing the seams. The overall character is a sharp, modern fruit-rose with a spicy-woody backbone — assertive in the first hour, settling into a dry, slightly earthy trail. It reads pitched for cool-weather evenings or sharp daytime statements.
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.
