Tubéreuse 3 Animale
Tuberose stands front and center—bruised, slightly overripe, with a green-wet quality that keeps it from tipping into pure cream.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tuberose100
- Tobacco60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Neroli
- Tuberose
- Plum
- Grass
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose stands front and center—bruised, slightly overripe, with a green-wet quality that keeps it from tipping into pure cream. The opening pairs white petals with neroli's bitter brightness, creating tension between floral sweetness and citrus edge. As it settles, an unexpected plum note softens the composition, rounding out tuberose's natural sharpness with dark fruit flesh.
The tobacco in the base is more cured leaf than smoke, adding a dry, earthy anchor that grounds what could otherwise drift too botanical. Throughout, there's an animalic undertone—the perfume's namesake quality—that suggests skin warmth and indolic depth without veering into vintage heaviness. This isn't the clean tuberose of polite perfumery.
Best for those who find most white florals too polite or powdery. It wears close but insistent, more brooding than bright, with enough complexity to sustain long evenings. The tuberose lover who wants something less gardenia-adjacent, more rooted in earth and shadow.
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.
