Désir Extrême Maïssa Parfums
Désir Extrême opens with violet—powdery and slightly green—over raspberry's tartness.
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.
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Raspberry
- Amberwood
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readDésir Extrême opens with violet—powdery and slightly green—over raspberry's tartness. The contrast is the composition's first statement: violet's cool, soft character against raspberry's acidic brightness. Amberwood, sandalwood, and leather in the base take things in a darker, drier direction.
Olibanum adds a resinous, slightly smoky depth to the base, and musk grounds everything at skin level. The shift from the fruity-powdery top to the leather-incense drydown is the composition's main arc and its most compelling feature. A versatile fragrance that spans gender conventions—best in cooler weather when the base notes develop fully.
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.
