Route du Vetiver
Black currant opens with a sharp, slightly green fruitiness — not sweet, closer to the leafy tartness of the bud than the ripe berry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a sharp, slightly green fruitiness — not sweet, closer to the leafy tartness of the bud than the ripe berry. It creates immediate contrast against what follows.
Vetiver moves to the foreground in the heart alongside jasmine. The vetiver here is earthy and smoky, with jasmine providing just enough white-floral brightness to keep it from turning too austere. This pairing is the structural core of the fragrance — dry, slightly bitter, botanical.
Sandalwood and musk bring warmth to the base without sweetening the composition significantly. The overall dry-down remains woody and earthy, with the musk adding soft skin-level presence. Clean but never fresh, this wears as a grounded, unisex study in vetiver.
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.
