273 Rodeo Drive
273 Rodeo Drive is named for the Beverly Hills address of Fred Hayman's boutique — and it announces itself with corresponding fanfare.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Tuberose70
- Jasmine50
- Amber50
- Peach50
- Sandalwood40
By the editors · 2 min read273 Rodeo Drive is named for the Beverly Hills address of Fred Hayman's boutique — and it announces itself with corresponding fanfare. Gardenia, tuberose, and jasmine pile on in the opening alongside ripe stone fruit, creating the kind of big white floral statement that defined luxury fragrance at the decade's close. The heart pulls back only slightly, the ylang adding sweetness while apricot softens the florals into something more languid and tropical.
The sandalwood-vetiver base is sturdy and earthy, anchoring the whole construction against the risk of floating away into floral excess. Wear this fragrance and you are citing a very specific time and place: a late-80s gala in a room where everyone has dressed deliberately and conspicuously. It has not been updated; that is both its limitation and its considerable appeal for those who miss that particular mode of scentmaking.
