Very Irrésistible Givenchy Rose Damascena 2007
A focused rose flanker that reaches back to a more classical structure than its parent.
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.
- Rose85
- Woody60
- Mossy55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Damask Rose
- Magnolia
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA focused rose flanker that reaches back to a more classical structure than its parent. Cardamom, galbanum, and bergamot carve a green-spiced opening — almost crisp, with the galbanum doing the work of cooling the cardamom's dry heat.
The heart is a single rose, prominent enough to carry the composition without supporting florals. The base does the heavy lifting: sandalwood, oakmoss, rosewood, vanilla, and musk give the rose a chypre-leaning bed, slightly powdered, slightly creamy, with oakmoss anchoring it to an older perfumery vocabulary. The result wears formal and contained — a rose for cool evenings rather than summer afternoons.
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.
