Contre Moi
Contre Moi begins with a clean, understated pairing of lemon and bergamot — a polite introduction before the floral-fruit heart arrives.
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.
- Vanilla75
- Bergamot35
- Rose35
- Orange30
- Lemon30
By the editors · 2 min readContre Moi begins with a clean, understated pairing of lemon and bergamot — a polite introduction before the floral-fruit heart arrives. Magnolia and rose provide the floral warmth, orange blossom adds honeyed white floral sweetness, and pear threads a gentle fruitiness through all of it without dominating. The heart is soft, well-integrated, and resolutely feminine.
The base is the composition's central idea: Tahitian and Madagascar vanillas together create an accord of unusual depth — sweet but not one-dimensional, warm but not sticky, fluffy without being empty. Cocoa adds a faint bitter warmth, and ambrette provides a clean, slightly waxy musky lift that keeps the whole composition airy despite its richness.
Jacques Cavallier-Belletrud's brief here was clearly intimacy — Contre Moi wears close to skin, its sillage modest, its character revealed rather than announced. A dressing-table fragrance in the best sense: something you wear for yourself.
