Air de Fio No 1
Black currant opens with a tart, juicy fruitiness that is immediately tempered by a powdery floral heart.
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.
- Iris60
- White Floral50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lily
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, juicy fruitiness that is immediately tempered by a powdery floral heart. Iris and heliotrope combine for a soft, cosmetic powderiness that dominates the mid-development, while lily adds a delicate floral freshness. The dry-down introduces Virginia cedar's dry, pencil-shaving woodiness alongside a clean white musk that reinforces the powdery texture. This composition remains relatively linear after the top notes fade, focusing on its iris-centric powder accord with minimal evolution. Projection is intimate from the start, staying close to the skin with moderate longevity of four to six hours. Ideal for casual daytime wear in cool weather, its restrained sillage suits office environments.
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.
