Autour de Minuit
Autour de Minuit — Around Midnight — is built from just four notes, and Yves Rocher's restraint reads as intention rather than limitation.
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.
- Iris75
- Patchouli55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Iris
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readAutour de Minuit — Around Midnight — is built from just four notes, and Yves Rocher's restraint reads as intention rather than limitation. Mandarin opens briefly before yielding to iris, the dominant material and clear compositional focus. The iris here reads earthy-rooty rather than powdery, cooler and slightly mineral — closer to the raw rhizome than the classic perfumery powder. Vetiver and patchouli compose the base together: dry smoky earthiness from one, humid depth from the other.
It is a minimal composition that works because each element earns its place. Around midnight is exactly when this makes sense — cool, slightly mysterious, asking nothing of the wearer except the right occasion.
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.
