Pure Aphrodisiaque
Pure Aphrodisiaque lives up to its name without apology — the opening is rum and pear together, a combination that reads as dark and fruity-boozy, the rum adding warmth before the white florals arrive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Tuberose70
- Amber60
- Musky60
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Rum
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPure Aphrodisiaque lives up to its name without apology — the opening is rum and pear together, a combination that reads as dark and fruity-boozy, the rum adding warmth before the white florals arrive. Gardenia, tuberose, and jasmine form the heart: a dense, slightly narcotic combination that Agent Provocateur has used confidently across several of its releases. The tuberose leads here, the most insistent of the three, with gardenia adding a creamy quality and jasmine providing the indolic depth.
Amber and musk in the base are substantial and warm, anchoring the florals with enough resinous weight to make this a genuinely long-lasting proposition. The mandarin noted in the general list gives occasional brightness to the middle stages. A fragrance without irony — unambiguously seductive by design.
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.
