Northern Lights
Black currant and grapefruit open with a tartness that leads before the composition relaxes into its floral core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit open with a tartness that leads before the composition relaxes into its floral core. Violet leaf brings a green, crushed-stem character to the heart alongside jasmine and lily at the white floral center; apricot bridges from floral toward a soft warmth. The development is gradual and the transition from tart opening to floral heart is well-managed.
The base is generous by the house's standards: ambergris and patchouli add depth and slight earthiness, while raspberry resurfaces as a sweet element alongside amber and musk. This is a notably richer Oriflame feminine — more layers in the base than usual, with enough fruit threading through the structure to keep it approachable. Better suited to cooler weather than most of the line.
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.
