L'Insoumis
L'Insoumis opens with a jarring collision of herbal basil and dark rum, sweetened faintly by bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Lavender75
- Patchouli65
- Rum60
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Rum
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readL'Insoumis opens with a jarring collision of herbal basil and dark rum, sweetened faintly by bergamot. The combination feels deliberately unpolished, almost rough around the edges—lavender and clary sage arrive quickly, reinforced by black pepper that keeps the aromatic core from turning soapy or calm. This is not the lavender of barbershops or linen sachets.
The base settles into mossy patchouli with surprising restraint, grounding the composition without overwhelming it. What emerges is a fragrance that wears its contradictions openly: aromatic yet boozy, fresh yet earthy, composed yet deliberately disheveled.
L'Insoumis suits those who find conventional fougères too polite. It's meant for someone comfortable with a scent that doesn't smooth over its sharper impulses, one that maintains a certain refusal to charm easily.
Scent twins
In this family
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