Absolu Intense Simply Red
Fig leaf opens green and milky, its lactonic sap shearing quickly into a soapy brightness that preps the skin for white petals.
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.
- Lactonic60
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Tuberose
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readFig leaf opens green and milky, its lactonic sap shearing quickly into a soapy brightness that preps the skin for white petals. Tuberose arrives almost immediately, pushing a camphor-sweet creaminess that swallows the green; orange blossom threads a quieter honeyed sparkle through the bloom, keeping the heart from tipping into indolic overload. As the petals settle, tonka’s soft almond facet couples with vanillic amber to form a plush, icing-like cushion while sandalwood supplies a dry, blond wood frame that stops the base from turning syrupy. Skin-warmth coaxes out a slow caramel swirl that lasts close to six hours, projecting at arm’s-length for the first two before folding into a sweet, faintly coconut-tinged haze. Quietly radiant rather loud, it favours temperate spring days and unhurried brunches where proximity matters more than statement.
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.
