Fleur des Comores
Black currant opens with a tart, slightly jammy brightness before jasmine and ylang-ylang take over the composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Amber60
- Musky55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, slightly jammy brightness before jasmine and ylang-ylang take over the composition. The ylang carries its characteristic banana-adjacent creaminess here, softened by jasmine's clean white-floral warmth. Vanilla threads through the heart, keeping the florals from feeling austere.
The base anchors everything in vetiver's cool, earthy rootiness against ambergris and amber — a combination that reads smooth and slightly marine without being watery. Musk rounds out the dry-down, leaving a skin-close finish that's warmer than the opening suggested.
Overall, this reads as a tropical floral with animalic warmth underneath — ylang-forward but grounded enough by vetiver to avoid sweetness fatigue.
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.
