Red Door
Red Door opens with a plush, fruited floral wave—honeyed rose and orange blossom laced with violet and a fleeting whisper of anise that lends an old-fashioned powderiness.
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.
- Rose85
- Tuberose75
- Floral70
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Plum
- Peach
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readRed Door opens with a plush, fruited floral wave—honeyed rose and orange blossom laced with violet and a fleeting whisper of anise that lends an old-fashioned powderiness. The sweetness is unapologetic, recalling the grand femininity of eighties power dressing, when perfume announced arrival rather than whispered suggestion. Peach and plum meld into the florals without shouting their presence.
The heart builds into a dense bouquet of tuberose, jasmine, and ylang-ylang, creamy and indolic, underscored by honey that threads through the white flowers like golden syrup. As it dries down, sandalwood and benzoin soften the drama, while heliotrope adds an almond-like softness that keeps the base from turning too severe.
This is a perfume of deliberate opulence—formal, assured, undeniably vintage in sensibility. It suits someone who appreciates the unabashed femininity of another era, or anyone curious about what boldness smelled like before minimalism took hold.
Scent twins
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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.
