Mademoiselle No. 1
Black currant, blood orange, and grapefruit open as a layered citrus chord, tart on top and slightly bitter underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Blood Orange
- Grapefruit
- Vanilla
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant, blood orange, and grapefruit open as a layered citrus chord, tart on top and slightly bitter underneath. The currant gives the entry a fruity-purple cast that keeps the citrus from reading purely cologne-style.
Vanilla appears earlier than expected in the heart, blending with lily of the valley and rose for a sweet floral middle. It reads creamy and pink, with the muguet keeping things fresh while vanilla pulls toward a soft gourmand register.
White musk, sandalwood, and cedar close out the dry-down with a clean woody base that stays close to skin. The overall character is a polished citrus-floral with a quiet sweet finish, easy in daytime contexts and undemanding through the wear.
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.