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Balenciaga · Est. 2013

Rosabotanica

Something green and slightly unruly happens first — petitgrain's bitter orange-leaf edge alongside fig leaf's sappy, almost astringent freshness.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2013
Statusenriched
Rosabotanica — Balenciaga
2013 · Fragrance
fig·ros·vet·ced
Rating
3.8
1.6k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 12 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.

  • Fig Leaf
    70
  • Rose
    65
  • Vetiver
    60
  • Cedar
    55
  • Patchouli
    50

By the editors · 2 min readSomething green and slightly unruly happens first — petitgrain's bitter orange-leaf edge alongside fig leaf's sappy, almost astringent freshness. Then rose arrives, but not the classical kind: it's lifted by pink pepper's fizz and grapefruit's tart pale-yellow skin, cardamom adding a low spiced hum. The base pulls everything toward earth — vetiver, cedar, patchouli — not musky-sweet but dry and rooted, as if the flower were still in the ground. Rosabotanica sits comfortably in that zone between fresh and woody, never fully committing to either. It wears well in transitional weather, and there's something quietly confident about its refusal to be merely pretty.

Filed: BalenciagaSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap