Rosa Nigra
Star anise and a soft sandalwood lift the opening together, the anise giving a cool licorice snap while peach and freesia add a fleshy sweetness underneath.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Peach
- Freesia
- Anise
- Sandalwood
- Peach
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise and a soft sandalwood lift the opening together, the anise giving a cool licorice snap while peach and freesia add a fleshy sweetness underneath. The entry reads slightly herbal-fruity rather than purely floral.
The heart rotates the same materials in a more concentrated form, with peach and freesia leading and the sandalwood smoothing edges. Despite the title, an explicit rose only registers in the general listing, suggesting the rose impression is more atmospheric than dominant.
Amber, vanilla, and musk in the base build a plush, slightly powdered cushion. The drydown settles into creamy sandalwood-vanilla with peach lingering and faint anise. Warm, soft, and feminine in a restrained way.
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.
