Lipstick Rose
Grapefruit and violet open in a tart-cool pairing, the citrus's bitter edge sharpening the violet's powdered sweetness.
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.
- Violet85
- Iris75
- Powdery75
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Violet
- Raspberry
- Iris
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and violet open in a tart-cool pairing, the citrus's bitter edge sharpening the violet's powdered sweetness. The first impression is brisk and slightly soapy, with no candy register yet.
The heart sweetens into a lipstick-counter floral: raspberry adds a juicy syrup, iris brings cool grey rooty powder, and rose threads jammy warmth through the centre. The middle reads as a vintage cosmetic case opened on a sunny vanity.
The base is white musk and vanilla, lending a soft creamy finish that pulls everything into a powdered-makeup haze. The overall character is a powdered floral with a fruit-tinted heart, retro in shape and intimate in projection, more memory of a face powder than statement floral.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
