Aurora
Black currant snaps open with a tart, almost wine-dark tang that stains the air for minutes.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant snaps open with a tart, almost wine-dark tang that stains the air for minutes. Ylang-ylang lands next, its banana-sweet oiliness softening the fruit while lily-of-the-valley injects chilled green soap, keeping the heart crisp rather than creamy. Rose petals arrive late, adding a faintly peppery satin that steers the bouquet away from full tropical territory. Vanilla’s soft custard folds in slowly, quieting the tart top but letting the white flowers echo, so the dry-down stays fluffy instead of bakery. Clean white musk locks everything to skin, stretching the floral cloud for hours yet keeping projection polite. Office-safe in spring and early fall, it reads bright blouse rather than evening gown.
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.
