Carbon Sapphire
Bulgarian rose opens bright yet slightly jammy, its petals dusted with saffron’s leathery pollen that mutes sweetness and pulls the bloom toward dry spice.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose opens bright yet slightly jammy, its petals dusted with saffron’s leathery pollen that mutes sweetness and pulls the bloom toward dry spice. The heart gains depth as sandalwood and guaiac wood arrive together, the former creamy, the latter carrying a faint smoked-tar edge that keeps the rose from turning plush. Patchouli threads earth through the woods, darkening the accord while letting the saffron’s iodine glint remain visible. Over hours the musk sheathes the composition in clean skin, softening smoke and wood so that a quiet, powdered rose lingers close. Projection stays moderate, sillage a polite arm’s length; it reads smart-casual through cool autumn days and low-lit evenings.
Scent twins
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