Rue Rance Eau Superbe
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green sparkle that grapefruit sweetens while cool mint lifts the edges, creating an icy-citrus foil for the spices that follow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Grapefruit
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green sparkle that grapefruit sweetens while cool mint lifts the edges, creating an icy-citrus foil for the spices that follow. Cinnamon seizes the center, its dry heat fanned by cardamom’s lemon-peel nuance, and both cling to a taut rose that keeps the accord crisp rather than dessert-soft. Leather enters early, a matte hide brushed with patchouli’s cocoa-earth, and the trio darkens the amber into a resinous glow that never turns sugary. Over hours the opening chill melts, leaving a warm leather-rose ember with flickers of spice that stay close to skin. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, ideal for cool autumn days or smart-casual evenings where subtle swagger reads better than loud projection.
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.