Mystère Rochas 1978 Parfum
Mystère Rochas opens with a single sharp note of galbanum—cold, bitter, intensely green.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Floral80
- Mossy70
- Animalic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Tuberose
- Rosemary
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readMystère Rochas opens with a single sharp note of galbanum—cold, bitter, intensely green. It immediately signals a serious, complex fragrance with no interest in easy approval.
A dense floral heart unfolds: tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, violet, narcissus, and rosemary create a layered, heady bouquet with green and animalic undertones. Tuberose and narcissus in particular push the composition toward indolic richness.
Oakmoss, civet, cedar, patchouli, styrax, and musk build a deep, animalic-mossy base that belongs firmly to the pre-restriction chypre tradition. Civet and oakmoss give this fragrance a raw, animalic depth. An important, demanding composition for cool-weather evenings.
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.
