The Russian Princess (Русская Княжна)
The Russian Princess opens with a tart crush of red berries — cranberry, raspberry, strawberry — threaded through with black tea, giving the sweetness a welcome astringency that keeps it from cloying.
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.
- Rose60
- Fresh50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Tea
- Raspberry
- Cranberry
- Strawberry
- Black Tea
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readThe Russian Princess opens with a tart crush of red berries — cranberry, raspberry, strawberry — threaded through with black tea, giving the sweetness a welcome astringency that keeps it from cloying. It reads like a glass of fruit tea left to cool on a windowsill: familiar but considered.
The heart deepens into iris and violet, with rose adding structure underneath. Black tea reappears here, knitting the fruity and floral layers together with a dry, slightly smoky seam. This is where Bertrand Duchaufour's signature shows: the tea-rose accord is precise rather than sweet, with enough tension to hold interest.
Cedar, sandalwood, and damp oakmoss in the base ground everything with a woody, almost forestine quiet. The driftwood note stretches the sillage into something expansive at close. A confident, unhurried feminine scent with genuine depth.
Scent twins
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