Vocalise
Black-currant snaps open with tart, almost winey acidity that stains the air purple.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Fruity60
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack-currant snaps open with tart, almost winey acidity that stains the air purple. Ylang-ylang surges next, custardy and banana-sweet, folding the sharp fruit into a creamy yellow-floral heart while rose adds a clean, soap-petal lift that keeps the custard from cloying. As the heart settles, sandalwood’s dry milkiness arrives first, then amber spreads a soft resinous glaze, vanilla dusts everything with powdered sugar, and musk blurs the edges into a seamless skin-hugging aura. The dry-down stays closer to the body than the opening suggests: a fuzzy, almond-tinged skin scent where sandalwood and vanilla dominate and the earlier fruits recede to a faintly sour glint. Projection drops to intimate within three hours, making it office-safe yet quietly sensual. Works best in cool spring or fall weather, especially for close-contact situations where its musky whisper can be noticed.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
