Chypré Extraordinaire
Chypré Extraordinaire is the house's fruity-floral take on a classical chypre.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Mossy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Heliotrope
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readChypré Extraordinaire is the house's fruity-floral take on a classical chypre. Bergamot opens briefly and the heart blooms wide — tuberose, ylang, orange blossom, May rose and violet, threaded with plum and peach. The fruits read overripe rather than candied, which keeps the white florals from tipping saccharine.
The base is where the chypre framing arrives: oakmoss, patchouli, sandalwood, leather and iris build the dry mossy spine; civet and cumin add the animalic pulse; tonka, vanilla, amber, benzoin, clove and styrax fill the warm middle. It dries down dense, slightly powdery, unmistakably evening-shaped — long-lasting and more sober than the opening suggests.
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.
