Noble Carnation
Black currant snaps open with a tart, almost wine-green edge that quickly folds into violet leaf's cool, crushed-stem bitterness.
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.
- Green70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Violet Leaf
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant snaps open with a tart, almost wine-green edge that quickly folds into violet leaf's cool, crushed-stem bitterness. That green acidity hovers above the wood chassis instead of dissolving into it, so the heart feels like wet foliage laid across dry cedar shavings. Sandalwarms the base without turning creamy; its light lactonic touch softens the cedar's pencil-shave dryness while letting the musk stay clean rather than animalic. Over two hours the currant recedes, violet leaf sharpens to a metallic flicker, and the woods settle into a close, skin-warmed cedar hush that still carries a faint purple-green shadow. Projection stays polite—arm's-length for the first hour then intimate—making it an easy office reach through spring and early fall when you want a quiet, green-tinged wood scent that never drifts into sweetness.
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.
