Grand Master
Black currant and peony open with a fruity tartness that quickly acquires a powdery softness from the violet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Violet70
- Powdery70
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Peony
- Violet
- May Rose
- Coffee
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and peony open with a fruity tartness that quickly acquires a powdery softness from the violet. The combination is familiar in structure but the coffee note arrives quickly, adding a roasted bitterness that cuts against the sweetness with some tension.
The heart settles around a rose and violet pairing, both leaning powdery, while coffee maintains its presence as a grounding counterpoint. This roasted-floral accord carries a brooding quality somewhat unusual for the genre.
Incense, myrrh, and frankincense in the base push the drydown toward a smoky, resinous finish with balsamic depth. The result is a powdery floral that darkens considerably over time, bridging feminine florals and heavier resinous territory.
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.
