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The name is literal: Etat Libre d'Orange maintains an archive of erotic images from that year, and the fragrance aspires to similar territory — intimate, slightly illicit, the kind of thing shot in available light.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Amber75
- Patchouli70
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Plum
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe name is literal: Etat Libre d'Orange maintains an archive of erotic images from that year, and the fragrance aspires to similar territory — intimate, slightly illicit, the kind of thing shot in available light. Pink pepper opens crisply before giving way to incense and plum, a combination that reads less as fruit and more as dried fruit, dark and slightly fermented. Benzoin and patchouli in the base contribute their respective sweetness and earthiness without either taking over. The musk is close-sitting, keeping the whole composition near the skin. Unambiguously sensual in character — this doesn't project so much as it reveals itself at close range.
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.