Promise
The apple here is tart and crisp, more cider press than fruit bowl, sharpened by rosemary's herbal bite and a glint of pink pepper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rose65
- Fruity55
- Fresh50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Rosemary
- Pink Pepper
- Bulgarian Rose
- Clove
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readThe apple here is tart and crisp, more cider press than fruit bowl, sharpened by rosemary's herbal bite and a glint of pink pepper. It opens with an almost masculine clarity before the rose arrives—not soft or powdery, but full-bodied Bulgarian, edged with clove's warm spice. The contrast between fresh fruit and opulent flower feels deliberate, even architectural.
As it settles, patchouli and labdanum add weight without heaviness, while ambroxan lends a clean, skin-like radiance beneath the richer materials. There's a whisper of something animalic in the base, lending depth without announcing itself. The overall effect is poised and androgynous, neither overtly feminine nor conventionally masculine.
This suits someone who wants presence without volume, complexity without drama. It wears close but leaves an impression—polished, slightly austere, surprisingly intimate.
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.
