Poppy & Barley
Poppy & Barley opens into fig and black currant, dark and slightly jammy, with a violet that lends pale florality.
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.
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- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Fig
- Violet
- Poppy
- Powdery Notes
- Wheat
By the editors · 2 min readPoppy & Barley opens into fig and black currant, dark and slightly jammy, with a violet that lends pale florality. The result is unusual for Jo Malone — neither crisp nor sweet, but something between ripe fruit and garden soil.
The heart is where the concept lands: wheat, barley, and a loose powdery note create a cereal-grain quality that's dry and clean. Poppy adds little structure of its own, more a suggestion of meadow than any distinct floral presence.
The base settles into white musk over bran — earthy and light. This is a fragrance of ploughed fields and hedgerows, the English countryside after a dry June morning. Wears close to skin throughout.
Scent twins
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