Rouge Chaotique
Rouge Chaotique is the first oud-gourmand from Byredo's Night Veils line, and the brief is in the name: maximalist, off-balance, sweet and dark at once.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Oud70
- Patchouli55
- Caramel55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Plum
- Praline
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readRouge Chaotique is the first oud-gourmand from Byredo's Night Veils line, and the brief is in the name: maximalist, off-balance, sweet and dark at once. Saffron and cassis lead, leather-adjacent and tart, with bergamot and lemon keeping the opening from collapsing into syrup.
The heart is plum and praline — caramelized, slightly burnt — over a curl of oak. The base is where it commits: agarwood, papyrus and patchouli, the oud syrupy rather than medicinal, the patchouli warm. It wears like a dessert that has been pulled from a wood fire. Heavy, demanding, best in cold weather and small doses.
Scent twins
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