Paestum Rose
Opens with the crack of black and pink pepper over a cool, slightly austere rose — no sweet bouquet here.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Rose60
- Cinnamon50
- Amber45
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Incense
- Osmanthus
- Myrrh
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with the crack of black and pink pepper over a cool, slightly austere rose — no sweet bouquet here. The pepper is essential; it strips the rose of sentimentality and sets up the composition's architectural quality. The heart introduces incense, dry and myrrh-adjacent, alongside osmanthus, whose fruit-leather nuance keeps the middle from feeling purely ecclesiastical.
The drydown earns the fragrance its reputation: myrrh, opoponax, and papyrus build a dry resinous temple-wood base that reads almost ash-like. Bertrand Duchaufour's signature is plain throughout — spare, cool-toned, linear in its conviction. Wears best in transitional seasons and suits settings where a rose should whisper rather than announce.
Scent twins
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