Julia
Black currant opens with a sharp, almost jammy tartness that quickly softens as jasmine and violet rise to meet it.
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.
- Balsamic70
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Raspberry
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a sharp, almost jammy tartness that quickly softens as jasmine and violet rise to meet it. The fruit doesn't disappear so much as blur into the floral heart, lending the flowers a bruised, slightly dark edge rather than a clean brightness.
As the base develops, frankincense and incense introduce a resinous dryness that pulls the composition away from sweetness. Labdanum adds a warm, leathery depth without overwhelming the florals, while sandalwood smooths the transition between the smoky resins and the lingering musk.
The overall effect is a fruity-floral anchored in incense rather than amber, giving it a moodier, more contemplative character than its opening suggests.
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.
