Macassar
Macassar (1980) is a leather-woody from the era when Rochas was building dandy archetypes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Leather60
- Earthy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readMacassar (1980) is a leather-woody from the era when Rochas was building dandy archetypes. A brief bergamot opening hands quickly to a dense heart of vetiver, jasmine, cedar and patchouli — the florals threaded into the woods rather than sitting above them.
The base does the work: oakmoss and leather laced with coconut's faint sweetness, amber and musk closing it out. It projects firmly in cool weather and lasts most of a day, the kind of structured masculine that pairs naturally with wool tailoring. Coconut-leather is the unusual move, lending the drydown a tropical-tobacco roundness within the otherwise classical chypre frame.
Scent twins
In this family
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