Un Jour a Biarritz
Black currant opens with a tart, slightly green edge that quickly folds into bergamot’s bright citrus sparkle.
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.
- Rose70
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, slightly green edge that quickly folds into bergamot’s bright citrus sparkle. Rose arrives early, softening the fruity snap with a dewy petal texture that carries into the heart. There, tonka bean adds a warm, slightly hay-like creaminess while iris dusts the blend with cool, chalky powder, turning the composition matte. Jasmine’s indolic lift is brief; it mainly serves to bridge the tart top and the powdery heart. In the dry-down, sandalwood’s dry cream meets vanilla’s soft sweetness, both grounded by clean cedar and a whisper of skin-hugging musk. Projection stays polite, tracing a forearm’s radius for six hours, ideal for spring office days or cool summer brunch. The scent stays smooth and seamless, never loud, with iris and tonka keeping the rose in soft focus until dusk.
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.
