Bigarade Concentree
Bigarade Concentrée is an exercise in restraint — Jean-Claude Ellena distilling the clean, slightly bitter freshness of bigarade orange into a composition that barely whispers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Woody50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Cedar
- Grass
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readBigarade Concentrée is an exercise in restraint — Jean-Claude Ellena distilling the clean, slightly bitter freshness of bigarade orange into a composition that barely whispers. Pink pepper and cardamom open with quiet spice; rose at the heart is translucent rather than present; cedar and dry grass in the base strip everything back to near-transparency. This is perfumery as minimalism — the olfactory equivalent of a line drawing. It's unrewarding if you want volume or warmth, but revelatory if you find that kind of architectural understatement compelling. Not for everyone. Exactly right for some.
Scent twins
In this family
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