Red d'Amour
Opens with a sharp, slightly sweet-warm bite: black pepper laid over saffron's leathery, faintly medicinal warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond85
- Violet85
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a sharp, slightly sweet-warm bite: black pepper laid over saffron's leathery, faintly medicinal warmth. The pairing reads dry and serious from the first second, more apothecary than perfumery.
The heart pivots into jasmine and violet, with violet doing most of the work — that sweet, slightly powdery, candied-petal character pulled into a darker frame by the spices still lingering above. Jasmine adds creamy white-floral lift without going indolic.
The base is where the composition lands. Heliotrope contributes its almond-cherry-vanilla powder, tonka deepens the sweetness, and patchouli pulls earth underneath. The drydown reads as marzipan dusted over violet petals on suede — gourmand-floral with smoky-spiced shadows. Plush, slightly retro, and built for cooler-weather evenings.
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.
