Rose Water & Vanilla Cologne (2023)
The 2023 reformulation arrives as a sweeter, more confectionery cousin to the 2010 Cologne Intense.
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
- Vanilla70
- Sweet65
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Rose Water
- Loukhoum
- Cacao Pod
- Turkish Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2023 reformulation arrives as a sweeter, more confectionery cousin to the 2010 Cologne Intense. Rose water opens cool and dewy, lifted by neroli and petitgrain so the petals never tip into syrup at the start.
The heart turns gourmand: loukhoum lends powdered-sugar Turkish delight, threaded with darker Turkish rose absolute and a soft cacao pod that reads more praline than chocolate. It is rose presented as dessert without losing the flower entirely.
Vanilla in the base anchors everything, smoothing the rose into a soft, skin-warm finish. Wear close — projection is intimate, longevity moderate. A scented small luxury rather than a statement.
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.
