Cerise Bigarreau
Cerise Bigarreau is exactly the perfume its name promises: sweet cherry, opened wide.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fruity70
- Nutty50
- Musky50
- Cherry
The note pyramid
- Cherry
- Strawberry
- Almond
- Milk
- Musk
- Strawberry
By the editors · 2 min readCerise Bigarreau is exactly the perfume its name promises: sweet cherry, opened wide. The bigarreau cherry comes through immediately — ripe, plump, slightly candied but with a kernel of green-stone realism that keeps it from going fully artificial.
In the heart, strawberry adds a softer red-fruit dimension while almond pulls the composition toward a marzipan-cherry territory familiar from many gourmands. The base is the gentle anchor: a milky note rounding everything off into something close to cherry yogurt, with musk extending the soft, lactonic finish.
It's straightforward, fruity-gourmand, and short-lived — a fun seasonal scent rather than a serious one. Reads young and uncomplicated.
Scent twins
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