La Colle Noire
François Demachy composed La Colle Noire as a tribute to the Grasse estate where Christian Dior grew his obsession: the May rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Rose65
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Raspberry
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Black Currant
- Peony
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readFrançois Demachy composed La Colle Noire as a tribute to the Grasse estate where Christian Dior grew his obsession: the May rose. The construction serves that obsession faithfully. A brief lemon top gives way to a heart where peony, lily of the valley, peach, black currant, and raspberry create a fruit-floral support structure before the rose arrives — the Grasse May rose's specific quality, more complex and honeyed than its Bulgarian counterpart, given full room. Heliotrope in the base provides its cherry-vanilla-powder accord; sandalwood and amber extend the warmth. Guaiac wood and clove appear in the broader composition adding smoke and spice at the margins. A fragrance that doesn't question its romantic register.
Scent twins
In this family
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