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Black currant opens with a tart, slightly green fruitiness that immediately gets pierced by clove’s dry, woody heat, creating a spicy-berry flash that feels more autumnal than summery.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Violet80
- Powdery70
- Amber60
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Clove
- Violet
- Rose
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, slightly green fruitiness that immediately gets pierced by clove’s dry, woody heat, creating a spicy-berry flash that feels more autumnal than summery. Violet steps in next, its cool, powdery iris-like face softening the piquant top while rose adds a faintly sweet, velvet-petal floral layer that keeps the heart from turning chalky. Labdanum’s leathery, resinous amber facets merge with vanilla’s creamy warmth in the base, letting musk float the darker sugars just above skin level so the scent never cloys. Over three hours the opening spice quiets, leaving a muted ambery powder skin-wash that still whispers violet. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for cool weekday offices or weekend cafés.
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.
