Emperor's Court
Bulgarian rose opens velvety and slightly spicy, its honeyed petals immediately framed by bergamot’s bright, metallic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rose70
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose opens velvety and slightly spicy, its honeyed petals immediately framed by bergamot’s bright, metallic edge. Ylang-ylang lands in the heart, adding a banana-sweet, custardy floral layer that swells the rose into a narcotic yellow-floral cloud. The base arrives as a resinous wall: myrrh and olibanum smolder, labdanum and benzoin pour sticky amber, while castoreum, civet and musk churn up a dark, almost tarry animalic undertone that clings to skin like wet fur. Hours in, tobacco and patchouli dry the resins, leaving a leathery, smoky trail with flashes of salty ambergris. Projection stays assertive for eight hours, best suited to cool evenings or formal occasions where sillage is an asset rather than a courtesy.
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.
