Donna
Black currant and rose open with a slightly tart, fruity-floral character — the currant giving an earthy edge rather than pure sweetness, immediately separating this from standard rose-led florals.
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.
- Green55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and rose open with a slightly tart, fruity-floral character — the currant giving an earthy edge rather than pure sweetness, immediately separating this from standard rose-led florals.
Violet leaf, iris, jasmine, and ylang-ylang develop into a richly textured floral heart. The violet leaf provides a green, slightly bitter counterbalance to the ylang's creaminess. Iris ties the accord together with a light powder that prevents the florals from becoming heady.
Sandalwood, narcissus, and musk close the composition with a creamy, slightly green drydown. The narcissus adds an unexpected waxy coolness to the base. Overall: a layered, green-inflected floral with a powdery-musky finish.
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.
