Tropiques
Tropiques opens with raspberry and cranberry — tart rather than sweet, suggesting fruit at its most immediate rather than candy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody50
- Tropical50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Cranberry
- Jasmine
- Mango Blossom
- Black Currant
- Blackberry
By the editors · 2 min readTropiques opens with raspberry and cranberry — tart rather than sweet, suggesting fruit at its most immediate rather than candy. The brightness is short-lived; mango blossom in the heart shifts the register toward something more tropical and rounded, with jasmine adding a white-floral thread that keeps it from reading as pure fruit-salad.
Black currant bridges the top into the heart, extending the berry quality into the middle phase. Tonka bean and vanilla arrive in the drydown to sweeten and smooth, with sandalwood providing a woody platform underneath. The overall arc is from sharp-bright to soft-warm, a trajectory common in early 2000s feminine fruity florals, executed here with reasonable restraint.
Scent twins
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