The Library Collection Opus X
A study in contrasts, Opus X opens with two roses—Turkish and May—each rendering the other starker, more vivid.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Rose85
- Leather75
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Rose
- May Rose
- Leather
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readA study in contrasts, Opus X opens with two roses—Turkish and May—each rendering the other starker, more vivid. There's no softness here, no garden reverie. The leather arrives almost immediately, not smooth or supple but raw and slightly acrid, as if the roses were pressed between tanned hides still warm from the tannery.
What follows isn't a traditional rose-leather accord but something more unsettling: the ylang-ylang underneath lends a faintly narcotic sweetness that never quite resolves the tension. The effect is both austere and vaguely indolic, like finding expensive lipstick stains on a leather jacket.
This is fragrance for those who find conventional florientals too accommodating, who want their roses served with an edge. Polarizing, uncompromising, and strangely compelling in its refusal to charm.
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.




