Red
Opening with a candied peach brushed with powdery ylang-ylang, this 1989 release announces itself before you walk into the room.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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
- Woody65
- Sweet65
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Orange Blossom
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readOpening with a candied peach brushed with powdery ylang-ylang, this 1989 release announces itself before you walk into the room. The fruited sweetness veers into something denser and more resinous almost immediately, as ylang and osmanthus fold into a thick white floral heart. Tuberose and gardenia arrive with their creamy, faintly narcotic weight, but rosemary adds an herbal edge that keeps it from tipping into pure indulgence.
By the drydown, oakmoss and patchouli ground what could have been overwhelming sweetness into something earthy and deliberately opulent. The base holds amber and tonka in a woody embrace, with just enough vanilla to soften the vetiver's bite. It captures a particular vision of glamour from the late eighties: bold, unapologetic, and built to project. Not a scent for restraint or understatement.
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.
