Rose Noire Absolue
Blood orange and grapefruit spearhead a chilled, slightly bitter citrus accord sharpened by peppermint, while apple lends a crisp, green facet that prevents the opening from turning candied.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Peppermint
- Blood Orange
- Freesia
- Grapefruit
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange and grapefruit spearhead a chilled, slightly bitter citrus accord sharpened by peppermint, while apple lends a crisp, green facet that prevents the opening from turning candied. Cinnamon surfaces early, threading warm spice through the heart where jasmine and rose provide a soft, dewy floral cushion, and peach adds a velvety, lactonic thickness that smooths the spice. As the fruitiness recedes, moss and patchouli push forward an earthy, cool forest-floor tone that is quietly underscored by sandalwood’s creamy grain and a muted leather that never turns smoky. Amber slowly warms the base, letting musk diffuse the composition into a close, suede-like skin aura that retains a faint citrus sparkle for several hours. Moderate projection stays within arm’s length; versatile for cool spring mornings or shaded summer afternoons.
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.
