Souvenir d'Italie
Black currant and grapefruit open with a tart, juicy snap that feels like crushed berries mixed with chilled citrus peel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Fruity70
- Citrus60
- Floral50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and grapefruit open with a tart, juicy snap that feels like crushed berries mixed with chilled citrus peel. the heart adds jasmine's creamy pollen and freesia's watery green lift, while cardamom threads a cool, peppery spice through the florals, keeping them airy rather than sweet. sandalwood slides in early, its dry cream softening the fruit acids and turning the bouquet into a pale woody skin scent within two hours. musk finishes the job, filtering everything through a clean, cotton-laundered veil that stays close to the body. projection is polite, office-safe; best in spring and early fall when mild air lets the green facets breathe. longevity is moderate, sillage intimate, complexity low as the scent folds into a single soft woody-musk skin layer.
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.
