Eau de Lacoste L.12.12. Rouge
Marypierre Julien charts a journey from fruit and tea to fire: mango and mandarin orange open sweetly over rooibos tea's warm, slightly woody-aromatic character — an unusual trio that reads as the opening of something warm rather than fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Herbal50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Mango
- Rooibos Tea
- Mandarin Orange
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readMarypierre Julien charts a journey from fruit and tea to fire: mango and mandarin orange open sweetly over rooibos tea's warm, slightly woody-aromatic character — an unusual trio that reads as the opening of something warm rather than fresh. Cardamom, black pepper, and ginger in the heart escalate into genuine spice, the three notes working in complementary registers — cardamom's sweet warmth, pepper's sharp edge, ginger's angular bite. Black locust's honey-sweet floral character and benzoin's resinous-vanilla warmth anchor the dry-down in a wood-amber territory that makes the earlier brightness feel earned. The Red entry in Lacoste's L.12.12 line is the most assertive of the range — a fruity-spicy oriental that commits fully to its character.
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.
