Rose Ambre
The opening is fruity-tart in the modern way — black currant's sour-jammy bite cut against bergamot, sweet but with a green metallic edge that keeps it from going gourmand too soon.
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.
- Rose70
- Amber70
- Vanilla60
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Almond
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is fruity-tart in the modern way — black currant's sour-jammy bite cut against bergamot, sweet but with a green metallic edge that keeps it from going gourmand too soon. The transition is fast, and within minutes the rose appears.
It's a sweetened rose, not a soliflore — almond paste lifts the floral toward marzipan, and from there the base rolls in heavy. Tonka, vanilla, amber and patchouli build the kind of warm gourmand-amber bed that keeps modern oriental perfumes broadcasting for hours. Rose stays visible above it as a recurring sweetness rather than a structural element. It's plush, cold-weather, and unsubtle — the perfume reads dressy without being formal, and projects well without crowding the room.
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.




