Sweet Wine
Black currant opens tart and slightly leafy, that signature cassis bite between fruit and green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Freesia
- Ambroxan
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens tart and slightly leafy, that signature cassis bite between fruit and green. The opening signals fruitiness without becoming candy.
Freesia carries the heart on its own — clean, slightly soapy, faintly peppery. The transition from currant to freesia is the entire middle phase, with no spice or wood to break it. The composition reads simple and feminine.
Ambroxan, vanilla, and patchouli form the base. Ambroxan is the engine of the drydown, lending a smooth radiance that lifts the vanilla and softens the patchouli. Patchouli reads chocolatey rather than dirty, vanilla creamy rather than syrupy. The whole settles into a polished modern fruity-musky with sustained projection.
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.
