Femme Rochas 1989 Eau de Toilette
Femme (1989 EDT) reissues Edmond Roudnitska's 1944 chypre with the cumin restored — the controversial spice note that gives this composition its skin-warm, almost erotic register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy70
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Rosewood
- Plum
- Peach
- Lemon
- Apricot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readFemme (1989 EDT) reissues Edmond Roudnitska's 1944 chypre with the cumin restored — the controversial spice note that gives this composition its skin-warm, almost erotic register. The opening is dense: rosewood, plum, peach, apricot, bergamot, cinnamon and lemon piled together in the high-1940s manner, fruit and spice without separation.
The heart deepens with rosemary, jasmine, ylang, clove, iris and rose — a baroque floral over the fruit — before settling into oakmoss, leather, benzoin, amber, vanilla, patchouli and musk. The drydown is what most wearers remember: heavy, warm, faintly animalic. Cool weather, evening wear, and the right neckline.
Scent twins
In this family
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