Rouge Assassin
Bergamot opens briefly with a thin citrus brightness before rose takes over, jammy and slightly powdered.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Iris
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly with a thin citrus brightness before rose takes over, jammy and slightly powdered. The first minutes feel hushed, almost lipstick-counter in mood.
Iris dominates the heart, cool, grey, and silken, leaning toward a buttered-rooty texture rather than a floral one. The rose softens around the iris, adding warmth without taking the lead, and the perfume stays in a quiet powdered space throughout.
The base is the long stretch: tonka and benzoin layering a warm sweet resin under sandalwood and vanilla, cedar adding a dry woody backbone. The overall character is a powdery iris-rose with a vanilla-resin finish, intimate in projection, soft and slightly nostalgic in feel.
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.
