Tubéreuse De Madras
Tubéreuse de Madras opens green — violet leaf cool and slightly sappy, orange blossom bright but not honeyed — setting up the tuberose with a vegetal rather than indolic introduction.
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.
- Tuberose85
- Woody55
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Orange Blossom
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readTubéreuse de Madras opens green — violet leaf cool and slightly sappy, orange blossom bright but not honeyed — setting up the tuberose with a vegetal rather than indolic introduction.
The heart is where the subject takes hold. Tuberose pairs with ylang-ylang, and the ylang's banana-creaminess pushes the tuberose toward its warmer, more carnal end. The composition does not court the operatic tuberose of the 1980s — it is creamier, less mentholated, with the indoles checked.
The base widens into sandalwood, vanilla and a continuing tuberose, the vanilla doing the smoothing work and the sandalwood keeping the floral from going gourmand. It wears soft-loud — projecting more than it appears at first — and reads tropical rather than nocturnal, better in warm weather than cold.
Scent twins
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