: a syrupy liquor of low alcoholic strength made from black currants and used chiefly as a flavoring and sweetening agent
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The Nectarine Blossom & Honey Cologne is one of our favorite fragrances, with notes of cassis, acacia honey, and peach.
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Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 23 Jan. 2026
Tomorrow Cellars produces Petite Sirah with blackberry, cassis, and warm spice notes, and the Rhône Blanc shows ripe pear, honeysuckle, and lemon zest.
—Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The beautiful smell of Marriott’s signature scent is both inspiring and mysterious, blended with top notes of cassis, sparkling Fuji apple, grapefruit, cyclamen, paired with the subtle notes of pink jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, mountain sage, white cedar, and pale musk.
—Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
Tasted out of magnum bottles, this stunning blend has aromas of red raspberry, cassis, pine forest, and tobacco leaf with silky tannins and flavors of red and black fruits, tobacco leaf, and forest shrubs.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2025
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Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 23 Jan. 2026
Tomorrow Cellars produces Petite Sirah with blackberry, cassis, and warm spice notes, and the Rhône Blanc shows ripe pear, honeysuckle, and lemon zest.
—Layne Randolph, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
The beautiful smell of Marriott’s signature scent is both inspiring and mysterious, blended with top notes of cassis, sparkling Fuji apple, grapefruit, cyclamen, paired with the subtle notes of pink jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, mountain sage, white cedar, and pale musk.
—Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 6 Jan. 2026
Tasted out of magnum bottles, this stunning blend has aromas of red raspberry, cassis, pine forest, and tobacco leaf with silky tannins and flavors of red and black fruits, tobacco leaf, and forest shrubs.
—Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 22 Nov. 2025
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“Cassis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cassis. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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