Black Rose
Violet leaf opens with a cool, crushed-green bite that frames the syrupy collision of plum, peach and black-currant, creating a bruised-fruit accord both tart and almost wine-stained.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Plum
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Apricot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a cool, crushed-green bite that frames the syrupy collision of plum, peach and black-currant, creating a bruised-fruit accord both tart and almost wine-stained. The heart trades juiciness for velvet: iris powders the rose, while jasmine and ylang push a faintly banana-cream facet that keeps the floral layer creamy rather than sharp. As the fruit sugars retreat, tonka and vanilla warm the sandalwood core, letting amber liquefy the remaining petals into a soft, tobacco-hued glow where musk holds the skin-close haze. Projection stays polite, radiating a dark fruity rosé aura for office-safe hours yet gaining depth for after-dark wear. Cool fall evenings and mild winter days let the velveted rose fully unfold without overheating.
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.
