34 Boulevard Saint Germain
The top of 34 Boulevard Saint Germain is a controlled riot — cinnamon, clove, cardamom, pink pepper, black currant, and fig leaf arriving simultaneously, spicy and tart and green at once.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon55
- Iris55
- Tuberose50
- Cardamom45
- Fig Leaf45
By the editors · 2 min readThe top of 34 Boulevard Saint Germain is a controlled riot — cinnamon, clove, cardamom, pink pepper, black currant, and fig leaf arriving simultaneously, spicy and tart and green at once. The effect should be chaotic but Diptyque holds it in a coherent accord, reminiscent of a spice shop across a wet Parisian street. Then the floral heart opens slowly: tuberose creamy and full, iris with its characteristic chalk-and-root quality, violet powdery and soft, rose barely present. Eucalyptus in the base is an odd choice — cool, camphorous — but it lifts the whole construction away from sweetness and gives it a peculiar, astringent dignity. Unisex, distinctive, polarizing.