Rouge & Noir
Rouge & Noir opens with a dark sweetness—blackcurrant stained with peach and ylang-ylang, the bergamot just bright enough to keep it from becoming syrupy.
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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Vanilla35
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readRouge & Noir opens with a dark sweetness—blackcurrant stained with peach and ylang-ylang, the bergamot just bright enough to keep it from becoming syrupy. The fruit here isn't fresh or innocent; it has a slightly fermented, almost winey quality that suggests evening rather than daylight.
As it settles, white florals emerge in force. Tuberose and jasmine push forward with waxy intensity, their creaminess tempered by orange blossom's bitter edge and a thread of rose. The florals feel deliberate, almost staged, like a bouquet arranged for maximum impact rather than casual beauty.
The base wraps everything in vanilla-laced benzoin and musk, with sandalwood and cedar providing just enough wood to anchor the sweeter elements. This is a fragrance that wears bold and close—warm, slightly heavy, unapologetically feminine in the classical sense. It suits those who prefer their florals rich and their presence announced.
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.
