Trouble-Fête
Trouble-Fête begins on torn fig leaf — that bitter-green snap when the stem bleeds milk — laced with sambac jasmine that is more indolic than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky65
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Jasmine Sambac
- Sesame
- Tonka Bean
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readTrouble-Fête begins on torn fig leaf — that bitter-green snap when the stem bleeds milk — laced with sambac jasmine that is more indolic than sweet. The opening reads cold and sap-bright, almost edible-adjacent without being a fig fruit cliché.
A strange, dry sesame accord drifts through the heart, lending a toasted nuttiness that complicates the green. Frankincense follows quickly, smoky and a little church-cool, pulling the composition toward the resinous side of oriental rather than the sweet one.
It settles into tonka and incense — warm, slightly powdery, but never gourmand. A 2020 La Collection Particulière piece for someone who finds sap and smoke more interesting than fruit and flowers, and wears their fragrance the way other people wear linen.
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.
