Hot Couture Collection No.1
Raspberry opens with a tart, almost sherbet-like brightness that quickly softens into a warm, resinous glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Citrus60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry opens with a tart, almost sherbet-like brightness that quickly softens into a warm, resinous glow. The citrus notes lend clarity rather than sharpness, and the berry sweetness never turns candied—there's an underlying earthiness, subtle at first, that anchors it. This is vetiver used not for green bite but for texture, a quiet roughness beneath the florals.
As it settles, magnolia appears with a clean, soapy-creamy quality, blending seamlessly into sandalwood and amber. The wood here is smooth rather than spicy, the amber honeyed but restrained. What emerges is a skin-close warmth that feels polished and slightly retro, recalling the cleaner, fruitier musks of the early 2000s.
This suits someone drawn to accessible femininity without overt sweetness—approachable but composed, fruity without being playful. It wears closer to the body than its Hot Couture branding might suggest, more discreet than dramatic.
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.
