Marlowe
Tuberose comes out indolic and slightly meaty, immediately joined by osmanthus that adds an apricot-leather nuance.
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.
- Tuberose90
- Leather70
- Floral60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Osmanthus
- Oakmoss
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose comes out indolic and slightly meaty, immediately joined by osmanthus that adds an apricot-leather nuance. There is none of the bright tropical sweetness most tuberose compositions carry; this one stays brooding from the first sniff.
The base extends that mood. Oakmoss and labdanum lay down a damp green-balsamic floor, leather adds a worn suede quality, and musk threads everything together. Myrrh contributes a smoky resinous shadow.
Overall the character reads as a dark, almost theatrical floral leather, more night-blooming garden than perfumery convention. Projection is strong without being loud, and the long base sits close to skin in the final hours, animalic and quiet.
Scent twins
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