Russian Flowers Exciting
Black currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into violet’s cool, powdery leaf.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Violet
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, jammy snap that quickly folds into violet’s cool, powdery leaf. The heart pairs that violet with a clean rose, the two florals creating a silky, slightly sweet layer that mutes the fruit’s acidity. Sandalwood arrives early in the dry-down, its creamy wood pulling the florals closer to skin while amber adds a soft, resinous glow underneath. Musk keeps the base tidy, stopping the composition from turning heavy and letting the violet-rose accord hover just above the wearer for several hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; it reads like a crisp spring morning in a city park, smart enough for the office yet relaxed for weekend errands.
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.
