L'Interdit 2003
The 2003 reissue of L'Interdit arrives with a more modern register than its 1957 ancestor: violet leaf and peach open alongside Bulgarian rose and osmanthus, giving the first minutes a soft fruit-floral quality that's sweet without leaning cloying.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Tuberose90
- Rose65
- Amber50
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bulgarian Rose
- Peach
- Peony
- Osmanthus
- Tuberose
- Strawberry
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2003 reissue of L'Interdit arrives with a more modern register than its 1957 ancestor: violet leaf and peach open alongside Bulgarian rose and osmanthus, giving the first minutes a soft fruit-floral quality that's sweet without leaning cloying.
The heart unpacks into a rich floriental — tuberose anchors it, supported by heliotrope's powdery warmth and orange blossom, with plum and strawberry threading a jammy suggestion through the florals. The base is classic: oakmoss, patchouli, and amber under cedar provide the structural depth the 1950s original carried in fuller form.
The result reads as a bridge: lush enough for evening, polished enough for formal wear. It suits someone drawn to bold chypre-florals with a modern fruit edge.
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.
