Rose Noir
Lime and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly draws ginger and saffron into the spotlight, their warm, peppery bite cutting through the galbanum’s cool green snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Galbanum
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly draws ginger and saffron into the spotlight, their warm, peppery bite cutting through the galbanum’s cool green snap. Rose arrives not as a lush bloom but as a dry, spiced petal folded into nutmeg and orange blossom, creating a heart that smells like citrus zest scraped over woody florals. Incense and sandalwood push the composition darker, letting vanilla soften the smoke while musk stretches the base into a matte, skin-close haze that lingers for hours. Projection stays polite, a scented aura rather than a cloud, comfortable for office days and cool spring evenings when you want intrigue without announcement.
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.
