Secrets du Paradis Rouge
Neroli and orange open the composition: bright, juicy citrus with a faintly green floral edge from the neroli.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Honey50
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange
- Almond
- Orange Blossom
- Honey
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and orange open the composition: bright, juicy citrus with a faintly green floral edge from the neroli. The effect is sunny and brief.
The heart is built around almond — sweet, marzipan-leaning, with a faint cherry-pit bitterness — paired with orange blossom for a warmer floral side and damask rose for depth. Honey threads through, sticky and slightly animalic, lending a golden weight that pulls everything into a richer register.
The drydown turns balsamic and gourmand: benzoin, amber, and vanilla form a sweet, resinous cushion, with patchouli grounding the sweetness and a clean musk smoothing the edges. The overall character is a warm, almond-honey-floral oriental — projecting comfortably, lasting well, and pitched for cool-weather evening or date wear.
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.
