Rosam
The rose hits first and stays first — not a romantic rose, more a darkened velvet one, with incense and saffron pulled tight around the petal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Smoky70
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Incense
- Saffron
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe rose hits first and stays first — not a romantic rose, more a darkened velvet one, with incense and saffron pulled tight around the petal. The heart keeps the composition narrow, three notes doing the work of a dozen, the resin and the spice arguing over who gets the last word.
The base broadens: sandalwood and amber soften the smoke, patchouli giving the rose an earthen floor to stand on. It wears like a ceremonial fragrance, deliberate and unhurried. The minimal palette is the point — every ingredient earns its place.
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.
