Rousse
Rousse opens with a henna-stained warmth, earthy and slightly medicinal, like walking into an apothecary where dried roots meet old wood.
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.
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By the editors · 2 min readRousse opens with a henna-stained warmth, earthy and slightly medicinal, like walking into an apothecary where dried roots meet old wood. There's a dustiness here that feels intentional—not neglect, but the patina of time on something once vivid. Cumin and cinnamon weave through without sweetness, lending a skin-close spice that borders on austere.
As it settles, the composition reveals a leathery softness, less polished than aged. It evokes terracotta walls in afternoon light, or the scent of hennaed hair drying in shade. The red-brown warmth persists without much evolution, which is part of its character: steady, unfussy, almost stoic.
This suits someone drawn to fragrance as atmosphere rather than ornament—comfortable with scents that occupy space quietly, that reference craft and material over bloom or sparkle.
Scent twins
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