Ismail Efendi the Rose Bandit
Musk opens the scent with a clean, almost crystalline lift that frames the initial rose rather than competing with it.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Rose90
- Musky70
- Floral60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Musk
- Rose
- Lavender
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMusk opens the scent with a clean, almost crystalline lift that frames the initial rose rather than competing with it. The heart stacks multiple rose iterations—damask rose and narcissus amplify the floral volume while raspberry adds a tart, jammy edge and saffron injects a dry, leathery heat that keeps the bloom from turning sugary. Patchouli anchors the bouquet in earthy darkness, allowing lavender’s cool aromatic thread to drift in and out like a breeze through velvet curtains. Ambergris and benzoin in the base slowly swap brightness for a saline, skin-warm glow, while cedar provides quiet wood structure that prevents the late dry-down from collapsing into syrup. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, making it wearable for evening occasions through fall and winter without overwhelming a room.
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.
