Mauboussin in Red
The opening is a sharp jolt of tart black currant cut with bergamot, more juice-stained fingers than polite fruit bowl.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Rose85
- Caramel70
- Fresh50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ambrox
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a sharp jolt of tart black currant cut with bergamot, more juice-stained fingers than polite fruit bowl. It announces itself loudly, then softens within minutes as Bulgarian rose appears—full-bodied and slightly jammy, darker than the usual pink-petaled sweetness. The rose never blooms alone here; it arrives already dusted with sugar.
As it settles, praline thickens the base into something closer to candied rose petals than a traditional floral. Ambroxan keeps it from becoming cloying, adding a smooth, skin-like warmth that prevents the sweetness from turning sticky. The result feels more dessert-adjacent than romantic.
This is a gourmand rose for someone who wants immediate impact rather than quiet elegance. It works best in cold weather, worn unapologetically. Not subtle, but never pretending to be.
Scent twins
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