Fleurs de Bulgarie
Fleurs de Bulgarie is one of the oldest fragrances Creed still bottles, originally cited as a commission for Queen Victoria, and it wears with the austerity of a mid-nineteenth-century formula — bergamot top, single-floral heart, animalic close.
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.
- Rose85
- Amber55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ambergris
- Musk
- Rose
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readFleurs de Bulgarie is one of the oldest fragrances Creed still bottles, originally cited as a commission for Queen Victoria, and it wears with the austerity of a mid-nineteenth-century formula — bergamot top, single-floral heart, animalic close.
The heart is Bulgarian rose, full stop. Not rose-jasmine, not rose-iris — a soliflore that rises and stays. It's rendered in absolute rather than transparent style, dense and slightly jammy, with the rose's tea-and-honey side coming through as it warms.
The close is ambergris and musk over a continuing rose drift, salty and faintly animalic, the way older perfumery wanted skin chemistry to participate. A formal-day rose for cooler weather, projecting modestly but persistent — uncomplicated by design rather than by accident.
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.
