Queen of Gold
The first impression is sweet and rounded — pear and black currant tumbling out together, juicy without being syrupy, with a faint tartness that keeps the fruit awake.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Currant
- Star Anise
- Plum
- Freesia
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe first impression is sweet and rounded — pear and black currant tumbling out together, juicy without being syrupy, with a faint tartness that keeps the fruit awake.
A quiet anise breath threads through the floral middle, where plum doubles down on the stewed-fruit feel and freesia and rose lift things into a more conventional femininity. The development is gradual rather than dramatic; the fruit never fully recedes, it just finds company.
The drydown leans on creamy sandalwood and a soft vanilla, holding the fruit in a warm cradle. Overall the composition reads polished and crowd-pleasing, with a glossy commercial sheen and an unmistakable sweet pull.
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.
