Rykiel Woman
Pink pepper and violet open Rykiel Woman with an unusual combination — the pepper is dry and faceted, the violet powdery-sweet.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet50
- Animalic50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Violet
- Violet
- Black Pepper
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and violet open Rykiel Woman with an unusual combination — the pepper is dry and faceted, the violet powdery-sweet. Together they give the opening a distinctly French eccentricity, somewhere between sharp and soft.
The floral heart is classic without being predictable: jasmine and rose, warm and full, neither particularly sweet nor particularly green. They let the base do the more interesting work.
Leather, olibanum, amber, and musk form a complex, slightly smoky foundation. The olibanum reads as cool incense rather than sweet resin — sacred in the way frankincense tends to be. The leather adds texture without becoming the focus. This is a composition that becomes more interesting on the skin, worn closer than it's announced.
Scent twins
In this family
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