Chypre Charnel
A modern reading of the chypre form.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Mossy75
- Fruity60
- Rose55
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA modern reading of the chypre form. Peach sits at the top with citrus — orange, lemon, bergamot — making the opening juicier and rounder than a classic chypre's bitter-citrus snap.
The heart is a triangulated white-and-rose floral: Bulgarian rose, jasmine, and iris, the iris dragging it slightly powdery. The base is where the genre asserts itself — oakmoss and vetiver provide the chypre spine, with ambroxan, benzoin, vanilla, patchouli, and musk filling in a warmer, sweeter contour than the parchment-dry chypres of the seventies.
A chypre softened for modern wear, less austere than its templates. Cooler weather, evening, anyone who wants the structure without the bite.
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.
