Sceptre Malachite
Black currant lands tart and slightly green, its syrupy edge clipped by bergamot’s brisk citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender80
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant lands tart and slightly green, its syrupy edge clipped by bergamot’s brisk citrus. The heart folds lavender’s cool, herbal spike into jasmine’s creamy petals, while pink pepperpepper flickers metallic heat that keeps the flowers from turning sweet. As the base settles, vetiver smokes like dry grass over amber’s soft resin, both cushioned by clean white musk that drifts close to skin. Transition is swift: the fruity top collapses within twenty minutes, leaving a grey-green aromatic haze that lingers for five hours with modest arm-length sillage. Cool spring or early-fall days, office-safe, never cloying.
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.




