Charogne
Charogne—French for "carrion"—opens with a medicinal floral intensity that reads almost antiseptic at first, white florals pushed to their clinical edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tuberose75
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readCharogne—French for "carrion"—opens with a medicinal floral intensity that reads almost antiseptic at first, white florals pushed to their clinical edge. Within minutes, this brightness begins to decay in the most deliberate way, revealing something animalic and faintly unsettling underneath. Tuberose and lily seem to hover between funeral parlor opulence and something more corporeal, with cumin adding a body-heat sourness that teeters on the edge of discomfort.
As it settles, the composition reveals its structure: classical white florals corrupted rather than destroyed, still recognizable but rendered strange. The sweetness underneath—a coconut-like lactonic quality—only makes the whole experience more disconcerting, like perfume worn against unwashed skin.
This is Etat Libre d'Orange at their most confrontational, a fragrance that forces you to reconsider where beauty ends and decay begins. Not for everyone, and that seems entirely intentional. It wears like a provocation wrapped in elegance, demanding that you either understand the game or walk away.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
