Ottoman Empire
Bulgarian rose dominates the opening, its honeyed petals dusted with cardamom’s green heat while jasmine adds a narcotic lift.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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
- Warm Spicy70
- Amber60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose dominates the opening, its honeyed petals dusted with cardamom’s green heat while jasmine adds a narcotic lift. Cinnamon quickly overtakes the spices, folding saffron’s leather nuance and nutmeg’s soft sweetness into the bloom so the heart smells like rose soaked in mulled wine. Vetiver threads a dry grass smoke through the ambered base, keeping the rose from turning syrupy as myrrh’s resin and sandalwood’s creamy grain fuse into a warm, incense-laden skin-hug. Oakmoss creeps in late, lending a quiet forest floor bitterness that tames the amber glow and extends the woody backdrop for hours. Projection stays within arm’s reach; the scent feels opulent yet comfortable for cool autumn evenings or a subdued evening function.
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.