Ottoman Empire Part II
Bulgarian rose dominates the opening, its honeyed petals immediately spiced by cardamom and doubled by softer jasmine.
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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
- Woody60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose dominates the opening, its honeyed petals immediately spiced by cardamom and doubled by softer jasmine. Cinnamon quickly joins, heating the floral heart while saffron adds a leathery iodine edge that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Nutmeg and vetiver supply a dry, woody crackle that lets the composition breathe, pulling the roses away from traditional attar territory. Sandalwood and amber form a creamy, resinous base that glows for hours, yet oakmoss and myrrh cast a cool, earthy shadow, giving the scent an old-world chypre backbone. Sillage radiates a polite two-foot aura, perfect for cool autumn evenings or formal dinners where you want opulence without shouting. Tenacity is serious: a single morning spray will linger through the next day on fabric, folding into a skin-close ambered rose.
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.