Paestum Rose Eau D'Italie
Despite its name, Paestum Rose delivers incense and resin rather than florals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Incense70
- Black Pepper50
- Labdanum50
- Amber40
- Peach30
By the editors · 2 min readDespite its name, Paestum Rose delivers incense and resin rather than florals. Black pepper and pink pepper open with dry, spiced heat before incense takes over in the heart alongside osmanthus — the latter's apricot-leather quality providing the closest thing to floral warmth in the composition.
The base is uncompromisingly resinous: myrrh, opoponax, and papyrus create a dry, smoky, balsamic drydown that recalls ancient Mediterranean incense practices. Paestum was famous for its roses in antiquity; Eau d'Italie's fragrance suggests what happened to that place's soil rather than its flowers. Austere, specific, and memorable.
