Oscar Blue Velvet
Black currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into freesia’s cool green petal scent, creating a juicy top that feels almost effervescent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Freesia
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into freesia’s cool green petal scent, creating a juicy top that feels almost effervescent. The heart blooms into a creamy white-floral triad where tuberose dominates, its buttery petals thickening around ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet lift while orange blossom injects a honeyed sparkle that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Over the first hour the flority softens and sandalwood’s dry, milky wood rises, letting vanilla’s soft custard roundness settle over patchouli’s earthy cocoa edge so the base smells like white petals pressed into pale wood. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours before collapsing to skin, making it an easy spring office scent that can slide into a dinner date without overpowering the table.
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.