Sexual Paris
Galbanum slashes the opening with bitter green sap, while black currant adds a tart, almost catty edge that keeps the accord angular rather than juicy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes the opening with bitter green sap, while black currant adds a tart, almost catty edge that keeps the accord angular rather than juicy. The heart swaps sharpness for humid creaminess as jasmine blooms, its indolic petals cushioned by earthy patchouli that smudges the lines between floral and forest floor. In the dry-down, sandalwood’s dry, milk-fed wood meets vetiver’s rooty smoke, both sealed under a translucent amber glaze that warms without turning sweet. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles closer as a skin-print of soft woods. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual dinners are its natural habitat.
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.
