Gold Diamond
Black currant and grapefruit create a tart, slightly green opening that feels like crushed leaves and citrus zest.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit create a tart, slightly green opening that feels like crushed leaves and citrus zest. The heart introduces violet leaf's watery-green sharpness, which slices through jasmine's creamy indoles and rose's honeyed petals, producing a cool floral accord rather than a sweet one. Tonka bean's almond-like coumarin softens the composition in the dry-down, while patchouli adds a dry, earthy backbone that prevents the base from turning sugary. The scent stays close to skin after the first hour, projecting no more than arm's length, with the violet leaf note persisting longer than the florals. It wears best in spring and early fall when temperatures hover in the 60-70°F range, suitable for office environments where subtlety matters. The composition shows moderate complexity for a designer release, transitioning clearly from fruity-green to floral-woody phases without losing coherence.
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.
