L'Extase Caresse de Roses
L'Extase Caresse de Roses opens with a soft wash of pear and bergamot that feels more like sweetened air than fruit—translucent, immediate, gone within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Rose75
- Patchouli15
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Raspberry
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readL'Extase Caresse de Roses opens with a soft wash of pear and bergamot that feels more like sweetened air than fruit—translucent, immediate, gone within minutes. What remains is the heart: Bulgarian rose given a candied treatment through raspberry and peony, with lily of the valley adding a soapy-clean transparency. The rose never approaches photorealism; it's rendered in pastels, lightly powdered, aimed squarely at those who want florals that whisper rather than announce.
The base keeps everything in the sheer register. White musk and violet blur the edges while patchouli—barely perceptible—prevents the composition from floating away entirely. This is Nina Ricci at their most approachable: easy, polite, unapologetically pretty. It suits humid weather and casual office settings, projecting just enough to be noticed in close conversation. The kind of fragrance someone's mother might wear, and that's not a criticism—just a recognition of its comfort-first philosophy.
Scent twins
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