Karl Lagerfeld Rouge
Pear, peach, and black currant open as a bright fruity chord, the pear watery, the peach fuzzy-round, and the black currant adding a sharper, slightly green-purple edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Sweet60
- Caramel60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPear, peach, and black currant open as a bright fruity chord, the pear watery, the peach fuzzy-round, and the black currant adding a sharper, slightly green-purple edge. The opening reads young and juicy.
The heart layers jasmine and orange blossom for a soft floral middle, with patchouli arriving early to ground the bouquet in something earthier. The floral-patchouli pairing is a familiar modern shape.
Ambroxan, vanilla, and caramel run the base — ambroxan giving radiant clean warmth, vanilla a creamy sweetness, and caramel a darker burnt-sugar facet that lives up to the rouge in the name. Overall character is a polished fruity-gourmand floral, more contemporary than complex, best in cool weather, casual or evening contexts, and wearers who enjoy sweet projection.
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.
