John Varvatos XX
Black currant hits first with its catty, jammy tartness, cardamom warming the entry with a soft spice.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Cardamom
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant hits first with its catty, jammy tartness, cardamom warming the entry with a soft spice. The opening reads dark and slightly fruity rather than bright, setting an evening tone immediately.
Orange blossom alone in the heart shifts the composition toward a creamy floral middle, smoothing the fruit-spice contrast without becoming sweet. The transition is short and the move toward the base happens quickly.
Sandalwood, cedar, and coffee build the dry-down into a roasted, milky-woody finish. The coffee adds a bitter-sweet depth that gives the close its most distinctive signal — neither full gourmand nor pure woody. The arc holds a moderate projection through the first hours before settling into a warm, skin-close coffee-wood close.
Scent twins
In this family
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