Rose Absolue
A soliflore that takes rose at its word.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Rose95
- Tobacco55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Damask Rose
- May Rose
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readA soliflore that takes rose at its word. Bulgarian and Damask rose open jammy and wine-dark together, deeper and more weathered than a fresh-picked single rose, with the petal edges already a little bruised.
The heart of May rose lifts the composition slightly — greener, a touch dewy — but the rose register never breaks. There is no citrus, no fruit, no balsamic distraction. The whole middle is the flower at different stages of opening.
Tobacco arrives quietly in the dry-down, dry and faintly leathery, bringing a smoky pipe-room hush that settles the rose without sweetening it. The result is intimate and almost old-fashioned in the best sense — a fragrance to wear close, in the evening, when you want only one thing said and said clearly.
Scent twins
In this family
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.