Beyond Rose
Freesia opens dewy and slightly peppery, a brief lift before the perfume turns inward.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Balsamic80
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
- Styrax
- Rose
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia opens dewy and slightly peppery, a brief lift before the perfume turns inward. There is little fresh prelude beyond that single floral wash.
Freesia returns in the heart joined by osmanthus, styrax and rose, where osmanthus contributes its apricot-leather softness and styrax adds an immediate balsamic-cinnamon warmth. The pairing pushes the floral middle in a darker, more resinous direction than the freesia opening suggested.
Labdanum, benzoin, amber and styrax build a dense balsamic base, with the resins fusing into a smoky-sweet amber chord that frames a leathery whisper. The overall character is a rose-osmanthus tilted toward warm balsamic-amber, well-suited to evening and cool-weather wear.
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.
