Maai
Tuberose announces itself with almost alarming intensity—green, creamy, and faintly narcotic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Tuberose70
- Musk45
- Jasmine30
- Rose25
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose announces itself with almost alarming intensity—green, creamy, and faintly narcotic. This is not the polite tuberose of commercial florals. It arrives full-bodied and unapologetic, trailing indolic richness that some will find confronting, others intoxicating. Within minutes, jasmine and rose emerge to soften the edges, though "soften" is relative; the flowers here retain their natural funk and weight.
What distinguishes this composition is its refusal to sanitize. Civet and musk in the base lend an animalic warmth that reads almost human—intimate in a way that modern perfumery typically avoids. The overall effect is a white floral rendered in chiaroscuro, all shadows and highlights with little middle ground.
Suited to those who find most florals too tame, or who want their beauty served with a little sweat. Not an everyday proposition, but memorable when the occasion fits.
