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Black currant opens tart and jammy, its berry acidity cut by bergamot’s thin citrus edge, creating an immediate fruity brightness.
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.
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- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Peony
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens tart and jammy, its berry acidity cut by bergamot’s thin citrus edge, creating an immediate fruity brightness. Jasmine steps in next, adding a clean white-petal creaminess that softens the fruit while pink pepper sparks a brief, fizzy heat across the top. Peony keeps the heart airy, so the scent never clumps into heavy sweetness, instead drifting the currant’s tang into a sheer floral veil. Vetiver lands early in the dry-down, drying the composition with cool, rooty grass that mutes remaining sugar and lets clean white musk take the final breath. Projection stays polite, a skin-close floral-fruity hum perfect for office or warm-weekend errands, fading to a whisper of musky vetiver after five hours.
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.
