Beauté du Diable
Louise Turner constructs Beauté du Diable around the eugenol molecule — the compound that links clove and carnation in their shared spicy warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Aromatic50
- Fresh Spicy50
- Balsamic45
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Italian Lemon
- Absinthe
- Coriander
- Gin
- Cypress
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readLouise Turner constructs Beauté du Diable around the eugenol molecule — the compound that links clove and carnation in their shared spicy warmth. Gin and absinthe open with bitter herbal clarity, both green and slightly sharp, with Italian lemon and bitter orange providing citrus structure that prevents the bitters from becoming merely acerbic; coriander adds aromatic spice in the bridge. The heart then delivers what the name promises: carnation and clove in full declaration, amplified by ylang-ylang's heady sweetness and softened by geranium and cypress. Labdanum, guaiac wood, and vetiver close in a resinous-woody dry-down of considerable depth. Part of the Eaux de l'Âme series, Beauté du Diable is a modern carnation study done with genuine compositional intelligence.
Scent twins
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