Elusive
Rosemary opens brisk and resinous, its needle-like bitterness slicing through a tart lime-lemon tandem that feels more kitchen than cologne.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Green80
- Mossy70
- Warm Spicy50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Lime
- Lemon
- Moss
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRosemary opens brisk and resinous, its needle-like bitterness slicing through a tart lime-lemon tandem that feels more kitchen than cologne. Jasmine and rose arrive quickly, but the flowers are muffled by a moss blanket that drags the composition into cool, loamy shade while sandalwood warms the underside with dry creaminess. Amber and musk swell in the base, yet the moss refuses to yield, keeping the fragrance green-tinged and slightly damp through the wearing. Projection stays polite, hovering just outside personal space for four hours before collapsing to a skin-whisper of wood and musk. Office-safe and spring-weight, it reads like a thrift-store cousin of vintage chypres without the complexity or heft.
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.
