Nea
**nea** opens with a tart brightness—pomegranate juice stained with cracked black pepper—that quickly gives way to something rounder and more enveloping.
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.
- Rose75
- Tonka70
- Vanilla65
- Caramel50
- Musk45
By the editors · 2 min read**nea** opens with a tart brightness—pomegranate juice stained with cracked black pepper—that quickly gives way to something rounder and more enveloping. The damask rose at its center is neither dewy nor powdered, but warm and slightly spiced, as if petals have been folded into caramelized sugar. This sweetness builds slowly, never cloying, held in check by a faint patchouli shadow and the soft, woody hum of cashmeran.
What emerges is a scent that feels both intimate and slightly glamorous, like rose-tinted velvet under low light. The base is plush—tonka and benzoin lending a vanillic depth, ambroxan adding mineral warmth—but there's enough resinous bite from the benzoin to keep it from dissolving into simple comfort. It wears close, radiating gentle sweetness without announcing itself across a room.
This is a rose for those who find most rose perfumes too green or too powdery, preferring something gourmand-leaning but still recognizably floral. Evening-appropriate, autumn-ready, unapologetically soft.
