A Rose For...
Incense and frankincense lead — a smoky-resin opening that signals the composition isn't going to be a literal rose soliflore despite the name.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Rose55
- Iris55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Orris
- Tuberose
- Oud
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and frankincense lead — a smoky-resin opening that signals the composition isn't going to be a literal rose soliflore despite the name. The first impression is church and dry wood, with the rose more implied than present.
The heart pulls in orris, tuberose, oud and iris around the rose character, lending the middle a powdery-smoky weight that sits between modern niche oud and a classical iris perfume. Sandalwood, amber, vanilla, cedar and patchouli compose the base, with vanilla keeping the resins from going austere. The whole thing wears as a meditation on rose rather than a bouquet of one — long-lasting, close to the skin in projection, and best suited to cool, quieter contexts where the smoke can register.
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.
