Al Amaken
Black currant bursts first, tart and jammy, pulling bergamot brightness into its dark berry orbit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant bursts first, tart and jammy, pulling bergamot brightness into its dark berry orbit. Jasmine and rose bloom quickly, their white-yellow petals dusted with peony’s soft green edge, while vanilla underlays the bouquet with a rounded, slightly lactonic creaminess that keeps the florals from turning sharp. Cedar and patchouli arrive together: the wood gives clean vertical structure, the patchouli adds a subdued earthy hum that nudges the composition toward a gentle chypre feel without losing sweetness. In the dry-down, musk shears away the fruit and floral nuances, leaving a skin-close cedar-vanilla haze that smells like warm, barely sweet wood. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours then hugs skin; best in cool spring or fall evenings when its fruity top can still sparkle.
Scent twins
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