Damascena
Black currant strikes first—sharp, feral, almost musky on its own—before the roses bloom beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Rose95
- Musky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Rose
- May Rose
- Musk
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant strikes first—sharp, feral, almost musky on its own—before the roses bloom beneath. This is not prim petals in a vase. The rose here feels thick and resinous, the May rose adding a honeyed depth that leans more toward skin than garden. It's the sort of rose that could exist in a Middle Eastern souk as easily as a French perfumer's laboratory.
As it settles, musk folds in and the whole composition turns powdery and close. The black currant never quite vanishes; it lingers as an animalic shadow that keeps the florals from becoming too polite. The result is intimate and slightly dark, a rose worn rather than admired.
Best for those who find most rose perfumes too sweet or too clean. Damascena has bite.
Scent twins
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