Madness
Madness opens with a quick snap of pink pepper—piquant, almost rosy itself—before settling into the fragrance's true focus: a full-bodied rose that unfolds over hours.
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.
- Rose85
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMadness opens with a quick snap of pink pepper—piquant, almost rosy itself—before settling into the fragrance's true focus: a full-bodied rose that unfolds over hours. This isn't a delicate rose water or a dewy garden rose, but something denser, almost pulpy, with a slight jammy sweetness that keeps it from feeling sparse or old-fashioned.
The development is straightforward. The pepper fades within minutes, leaving the rose to stand alone without much support from woods or musks. What emerges is intimate rather than projective, closer to skin than air. It suits someone who wants rose as a statement in itself, uncomplicated by the usual symphony of supporting players.
A fragrance from the early 2000s, now discontinued, that demonstrates how a nearly soliflore rose can feel modern through restraint rather than innovation. Best for those who find most rose fragrances either too green or too powdery, and prefer something warmer and more direct.
Scent twins
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