Black Orchid Hair Mist
Black currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like acidity that immediately stains the bright citrus of lemon and bergamot into something duskier.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens with a tart, almost wine-like acidity that immediately stains the bright citrus of lemon and bergamot into something duskier. Gardenia, jasmine and ylang-ylang ride in together, their creamy white petals folding the fruit into a thick, humid floral cream that never quite shakes the currant’s dark stain. As the heart settles, the same trio of white flowers keeps pumping out a velvety, almost tropical sweetness that the sandalwood and vanilla later use as varnish. The dry-down is where incense and vetiver dry the cream to a smoky, resinous skin, while patchoul and amber supply a bittersweet earthiness that stops the vanilla from turning dessert-like. Projection stays within arm’s length for 6-8 hours, a quieter sibling of the original; best worn in cool fall or spring evenings when you want intrigue without the full room announcement.
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.




