Rose de Mai
Rose de Mai is a meditation on the centifolia — the May rose harvested each spring in Grasse's fields — rather than a perfume about roses in general.
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.
- Mossy100
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Rose Absolute
- Violet
- Violet
- May Rose
- Gardenia
By the editors · 2 min readRose de Mai is a meditation on the centifolia — the May rose harvested each spring in Grasse's fields — rather than a perfume about roses in general. The opening is dense and powdery, gardenia and violet framing the rose essence without overshadowing it. In the heart, jasmine and lily of the valley add register, though rose stays central. Ylang-ylang appears at the boundary between heart and base, lending a slightly waxy, tropical undertone before benzoin and amber take over. The drydown is warm and quiet. For those already fluent in classic French florals, this is legible, sincere territory.
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.
