Bestium
Bulgarian rose opens plush and jammy, its velvety petals dusted with saffron’s dry leather nuance that instantly warms the bloom.
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.
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose opens plush and jammy, its velvety petals dusted with saffron’s dry leather nuance that instantly warms the bloom. Bergamot flashes quickly, a brief citric lift that keeps the flower from feeling heavy before it subsides into the skin. From the first minutes incense coils upward, merging with the rose to create a smoky floral accord that smells like petals dropped on glowing charcoal. The heart is incense again, now thicker, folding osmanthus into its resinous haze so the fruity apricot tint of the flower reads as a muted sweetness inside grey smoke. As the base settles, the composition stays linear: rose softens, saffron’s hay-metal edge dulls, and incense dominates, leaving a quiet skin-trail of powdered wood and extinguished ember. Projection stays moderate for 6-7 hours, ideal for cool evenings or layered under wool.
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.
