Rusé
Petitgrain, bergamot, and narcissus open with a green-citrus-floral accord.
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.
- Aldehydic60
- Yellow Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain, bergamot, and narcissus open with a green-citrus-floral accord. Petitgrain adds twig-and-leaf bitterness, bergamot lifts with clean citrus, and narcissus brings a hay-like, animalic edge that signals deeper intentions.
Jasmine, lily of the valley, iris, mimosa, and rose build a dense heart that reads classically chypre-floral. Iris adds rooty cool, mimosa pollen warmth, jasmine and rose floral weight, lily of the valley dewy lift. The bouquet is layered and slightly retro.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, leather, civet, vetiver, labdanum, benzoin, patchouli, and galbanum build an unusually dense animalic-mossy-leathery base. Civet adds skin warmth, leather and oakmoss provide chypre structure, galbanum stays bitter-green. Overall character: a traditional chypre floral with significant animalic depth and weight, suited to formal evening wear and cool-weather occasions.
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.
