Alchimie
Alchimie opened in 1998 when fruity-floral-gourmand was crystallizing as a category, and Rochas contributed one of the more generously built entries.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Vanilla65
- Sweet55
- Caramel55
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pear
- Plum
- Plum
- Peach
- Peach
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readAlchimie opened in 1998 when fruity-floral-gourmand was crystallizing as a category, and Rochas contributed one of the more generously built entries. The top is an abundance of stone fruit and citrus — pear, plum, peach, black currant, grapefruit — arriving in a wave rather than a careful procession. Coconut and heliotrope in the heart add creaminess and almond-warmth alongside the floral trio of jasmine, rose, and lily of the valley. The base is unapologetically sweet: tonka, caramel, vanilla, amber, and sandalwood building a warm, gourmand dry-down that lingers. Late-90s opulence fully expressed — for someone who doesn't believe in understatement.
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.
