Russian Present Red
Russian Present Red opens with black currant against orange and bergamot—a fruity citrus combination with both tart and sweet aspects.
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.
- Floral55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readRussian Present Red opens with black currant against orange and bergamot—a fruity citrus combination with both tart and sweet aspects. The heart extends the fruit theme via apricot, while jasmine, lily, lily of the valley, and rose form a broad floral backdrop that is pleasant but not particularly distinctive.
Tonka bean, amber, and vanilla warm the base, and cedar provides a minimal woody structure. The composition follows a standard fruity-floral-oriental arc without deviating from it. Its strength is coherence; the various sweet and floral threads resolve cleanly in the drydown rather than competing with or muddling each other.
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.




