Rue Rance Eau Duc De Berry
Cardamom sets the tone with a cool, peppery snap that slices through the violet’s candied leafiness and the rose’s soft petals.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Virginia Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom sets the tone with a cool, peppery snap that slices through the violet’s candied leafiness and the rose’s soft petals. The heart stays crisp: violet keeps its metallic edge, rose lends a faint soap, and the spice keeps everything airborne rather than plush. Vetiver and cedar arrive early, pulling the bouquet onto dry, blond wood while nutmeg dusts the background with a quiet kitchen warmth. Within an hour the scent relaxes into a skin-close, woody-powdery haze where cardamom’s bite is gone and only the clean wood-violet tandem lingers. Projection stays polite, never leaving handshake radius, so office wear through spring and early fall feels natural. Longevity is modest, fading around the five-hour mark, but the understated dry-down makes discreet reapplication painless.
Scent twins
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