Empress of India
Empress of India opens with neroli, bergamot, and rose — a citrus-floral beginning with warmth from the rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tuberose60
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readEmpress of India opens with neroli, bergamot, and rose — a citrus-floral beginning with warmth from the rose. The neroli adds a bittersweet orange note above the bergamot's cleaner brightness.
Tuberose, jasmine, and rose in the heart form an opulent white-floral center. Tuberose is the likely dominant — creamy, heady, slightly narcotic. The combination of rose and tuberose is classic in formal feminine perfumery.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, incense, opoponax, and musk in the base add resinous depth and warmth. Opoponax and incense together create a slightly smoky, balsamic foundation. This is an opulent, feminine oriental-floral — projecting, lasting, suited to formal or evening occasions.
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.
