Citrine
Plum and black currant open with rich, dark fruitiness — plum's jammy sweetness alongside the tart, cool edge of black currant.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Animalic60
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Black Currant
- Leather
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readPlum and black currant open with rich, dark fruitiness — plum's jammy sweetness alongside the tart, cool edge of black currant. The combination is immediate and dense, with a slightly wine-like quality.
Castoreum grounds the base with its distinctive animalic, leathery, slightly medicinal character. The contrast between the ripe fruit opening and the dark animalic base creates a composition that is far more unusual than its three-note listing suggests.
This is a deliberately challenging composition — castoreum is a polarizing ingredient, and its pairing with dark fruit rather than softening musks or vanillas is a bold structural choice. Best suited to those comfortable with animalic elements, in cool weather, for evening wear.
Scent twins
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