Rose Kabuki
Rose Kabuki isolates rose as its primary subject, pairing two rose varieties — centifolia and damascena — to create texture within a single note family.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Rose100
- Aquatic50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Rose Damascena
- Blackcurrant Bud
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRose Kabuki isolates rose as its primary subject, pairing two rose varieties — centifolia and damascena — to create texture within a single note family. The blackcurrant bud adds a green, slightly tart quality that prevents the composition from reading as purely sweet, while musk in the base keeps the whole thing skin-close.
The name points toward a particular aesthetic — theatrical in concept, restrained in execution. This is a soliflore that rewards close proximity: at arm's length it can seem slight; against skin, its layering of rose types gives it more dimensionality than the ingredient list suggests. It wears briefly and quietly, designed for intimacy rather than projection.
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.