Rose Tonnerre Une Rose
Castoreum opens raw and leathery, smearing a smoky fur pim over the rose.
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.
- Animalic90
- Leather80
- Smoky70
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Castoreum
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCastoreum opens raw and leathery, smearing a smoky fur pim over the rose. Vetiver and patchouli arrive together, splitting the accord into earthy roots and bitter-green stems that keep the bloom from going sweet. The rose itself is dried, almost tobacco-like, its petals cured rather than fresh, so the animalic musk reads as cured hide rather than honey. Over hours the castoreum softens but never vanishes, turning the base into a low, resinous growl that clings to skin and fabric. Projection stays close, projecting roughly an arm’s length for six hours before collapsing into a whisper of smoky hide. Best worn in cool weather, evenings, when you want the scent of earth on leather gloves rather than flowers in a vase.
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.
