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 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.
- Rose65
- Peach40
- Sandalwood35
- Musk35
- Amber30
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.
