Fou d'Absinthe
Black currant opens with a tart dark-fruit bite — not the sweet cassis of oriental florals but the raw leaf-and-berry sharpness of a black currant bush, with an implicit green bitterness beneath.
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.
- Incense65
- Patchouli60
- Cardamom30
- Black Pepper30
- Musk30
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart dark-fruit bite — not the sweet cassis of oriental florals but the raw leaf-and-berry sharpness of a black currant bush, with an implicit green bitterness beneath. The heart is the real agenda: star anise and ginger create an absinthe-like aromatic, hot and cool simultaneously, nutmeg adding a dry spice warmth, patchouli grounding everything in damp earth. Incense in the base burns clean, extending the herbal-medicinal edge of the anise accord into the dry-down. Fou d'Absinthe is a fragrance for people who find most florals timid — it has the courage of its convictions, leaning into the dark and herbal without apology.
