Queen of the Game
Black currant and coffee collide at the opening — tart and bitter in roughly equal measure, with no sweetness cushioning the contrast.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Coffee
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and coffee collide at the opening — tart and bitter in roughly equal measure, with no sweetness cushioning the contrast. It's an abrupt, attention-grabbing start.
Orange blossom enters the heart with a creamy, slightly indolic quality that softens the edge of the coffee. The two accord unexpectedly well, the floral adding body without erasing the bitter thread.
Patchouli, cedar, tonka bean, and chocolate converge in the base, building a rich, dark sweetness. The chocolate here reads as bittersweet rather than confectionery. Tonka adds warmth and a faint nuttiness that rounds the drydown. The final impression is gourmand with genuine depth and a persistent dark edge.
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.
