Very Irresistible Givenchy Electric Rose
Electric Rose opens with an unconventional pairing — basil's sharp, herbal-anise character alongside lemon's citric freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Rose60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Violet
- Rose
- Anise
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readElectric Rose opens with an unconventional pairing — basil's sharp, herbal-anise character alongside lemon's citric freshness. The combination is more interesting than a typical fresh top, the basil adding a slightly medicinal edge that frames the rose to come.
The heart introduces anise alongside violet and rose — another unexpected choice. Anise's slightly medicinal sweetness alongside violet's cool powder and rose's warm familiarity creates a more complex, slightly retro-feminine accord than the Electric Rose name might suggest. The anise gives the heart a French pharmacy quality unusual in a 2012 mainstream flanker.
Cedar and musk close with a clean, woody base. The cedar provides dry structure; musk diffuses the composition to skin. The overall effect is crisp and slightly unconventional — a flanker that diverges more meaningfully from its parent than most.
Scent twins
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