Rosa Dorotea
Ambergris opens briny and slightly animalic, its salty drift immediately framing the rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Marine90
- Aquatic80
- Salty50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Ambergris
- Lily
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris opens briny and slightly animalic, its salty drift immediately framing the rose. Melon slips underneath, lending a watery sweetness that keeps the marine accord from turning harsh. Lily arrives early, its cool green petal edge stretching the aquatic impression into something almost ozonic. Rose blooms quietly in the background, never plush, instead acting like a transparent red filter that softens the salt-musk finish. On skin the composition stays linear: ambergris and white musk dominate the dry-down, while the faint melon-lily pairing continues to read as humid shoreline air rather than fruit or flower. Projection radiates an arm’s length for roughly four hours before collapsing to a skin-salty whisper.
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.