Maroussia
Maroussia opens with a soft blur of peach and orange blossom, sweet but not cloying, like sunlight through lace curtains.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Woody75
- Floral75
- Tuberose70
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readMaroussia opens with a soft blur of peach and orange blossom, sweet but not cloying, like sunlight through lace curtains. The fruit dissolves quickly into a dense white floral heart—tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang—that feels both opulent and diffuse, never quite sharpening into clarity. Heliotrope adds a powdery haze, while iris lends a cool, almost waxy smoothness beneath the warmth.
The base is where it settles into its true character: creamy sandalwood and vanilla tempered by civet's animalic edge, benzoin's resinous sweetness, and a whisper of tonka. It's a scent that recalls early-nineties Russian luxury, unabashedly rich and unapologetically feminine, with none of the restraint that would define perfumery a decade later.
Maroussia suits those drawn to full-bodied florals with a vintage sensibility—perfumes that announce themselves softly but linger for hours, leaving a trail of powdered warmth and amber.
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.
