Rossopompeiano
Galbanum opens with a sharp, cut-grass bitterness that immediately signals something older in sensibility.
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.
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Orange Blossom
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens with a sharp, cut-grass bitterness that immediately signals something older in sensibility. It clears quickly, making way for a heart that moves in the opposite direction — ylang-ylang and heliotrope bring warmth and an almost almond-like softness, with orange blossom and damask rose adding body.
Heliotrope and rose together create a powdery, slightly sweet floral core. The almond character here is built rather than literal — heliotrope and labdanum working in tandem to produce that impression.
Sandalwood, labdanum, vanilla, patchouli, and musk build a rich, resinous base. The dry-down is warm and balsamic, with the patchouli adding depth without dominating. Complexity is moderate; the evolution from green to floral to resinous is the main arc.
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.
