Red Hibiscus Cologne Intense
Red Hibiscus Cologne Intense opens with a flash of mandarin — brief and juicy — before yielding to a vivid tropical floral.
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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Red Hibiscus
- Jasmine Sambac
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readRed Hibiscus Cologne Intense opens with a flash of mandarin — brief and juicy — before yielding to a vivid tropical floral. Red hibiscus carries the heart with an assertive, slightly tart fruitiness; ylang-ylang adds a creamy, indolic depth; jasmine sambac completes the tropical tableau with its heady, narcotic sweetness.
The interplay between hibiscus's tartness and ylang-ylang's richness is the composition's most interesting stretch. The base simplifies to vanilla, pulling the fragrance toward warmth and dessert without fully arriving there.
Cologne Intense weight means better projection and longevity than the standard line. A summer evening fragrance, vivid and warm, that earns its brighter opening quickly.
Scent twins
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