Lavender Illusion
Black currant opens alone with a juicy, slightly tart fruit-leaf character — the cassis bud's familiar combination of berry sweetness and green sulphurous bite.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Musky50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lavender
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant opens alone with a juicy, slightly tart fruit-leaf character — the cassis bud's familiar combination of berry sweetness and green sulphurous bite. The top reads bright and contemporary.
Lavender carries the entire heart, lending the composition an aromatic-herbal cool that bridges the fruit-forward opening and the soft musky base. The cassis-lavender pairing reads as fresh and slightly unisex — neither traditionally feminine nor masculine.
Musk closes the composition alone with a soft, clean skin-warmth that smooths everything close. With only three structural notes the composition stays minimalist and focused. Overall: a transparent fruit-aromatic with lavender heart and a quiet musky finish, modest projection, short to moderate longevity, and a casual warm-weather character.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
