Rive Gauche Intense
A clean bergamot top is brief and quiet — used as a pivot rather than a feature.
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.
- Rose55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA clean bergamot top is brief and quiet — used as a pivot rather than a feature. The composition heads quickly into the heart, where the perfume's character lives.
Gardenia's creamy white-petal warmth pairs with ylang-ylang's tropical sweetness and a rounded rose, building a lush, creamy floral bouquet. Compared with the original Rive Gauche's cooler aldehyde-rose register, this intensified version reads warmer and softer in the middle.
Sandalwood, amber, and patchouli anchor a smooth, slightly sweet base — sandalwood doing most of the work, amber adding glow, patchouli supplying just enough earth to keep the florals from going syrupy. A polished, evening-appropriate floriental with notable projection and lasting wear.
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.
