Sensual
Black currant and crisp apple snap open with a tart green edge that bergamot sharpens into a cool, metallic glint.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and crisp apple snap open with a tart green edge that bergamot sharpens into a cool, metallic glint. Within minutes the top folds into a thick white-floral layer where gardenia’s creamy wax meets magnolia’s cool lemon-lime nuance, while jasmine adds indolic depth and lily-of-the-valley keeps the bouquet airy so the fruit still peeks through. Freesia threads a watery pepper that stops the heart from turning sugary, steering the scent toward a clean shampoo glow rather than tropical lushness. Sandalwood arrives first in the base, dry and blond, before amber and vanilla warm the skin to a skin-close musk that carries soft patchouli earth in its trail. The composition stays bright and laundry-fresh for roughly four hours, then settles to a faint woody-powder musk that hugs T-shirt distance and feels easiest during breezy spring weekdays.
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.
