Woman in Gold
A rose perfume that feels lacquered rather than fresh, where freesia's papery sharpness keeps the floral composition taut and almost metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose65
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA rose perfume that feels lacquered rather than fresh, where freesia's papery sharpness keeps the floral composition taut and almost metallic. The bergamot disappears quickly, making way for a rose that's been polished to a high shine—less garden, more jewelry box. There's a sleekness here that resists the typical rose treatment of dewy romance.
The drydown brings vanilla and tonka without tipping into gourmand territory. Patchouli adds a muted earthiness that grounds the sweetness, creating something closer to amber resin than frosting. The overall effect is streamlined and deliberate, a rose for someone who finds most rose perfumes too sentimental.
This suits evening wear and controlled environments—restaurants, galleries, formal settings where a whisper is louder than a shout. The name promises opulence, and it delivers, though with restraint.
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.
