Sun 1996
Sun 1996 opens with the sharp brightness of orange and black currant — citrus and dark fruit toggling between tart and sweet.
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.
- Floral60
- Musky55
- Citrus55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readSun 1996 opens with the sharp brightness of orange and black currant — citrus and dark fruit toggling between tart and sweet. The heart is where the composition opens up: jasmine, lily of the valley, freesia, and cardamom all arrive at once, creating a full white-floral bouquet with a slight spice edge from the cardamom. It reads as a product of its era — 1996 was peak Big Floral — and there's an unabashed density to the center. The dry-down reduces to a clean musk. This is a simple fragrance in structure but confident in execution, with a character that places it firmly in the mid-nineties white floral tradition.
Scent twins
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