Flower by Kenzo Oriental
Flower by Kenzo Oriental opens with a clean, almost mineral incense that feels more like temple air than heavy resin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Rose65
- Smoky55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Bulgarian Rose
- Violet
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readFlower by Kenzo Oriental opens with a clean, almost mineral incense that feels more like temple air than heavy resin. The effect is unexpectedly crisp, setting a contemplative tone before the florals emerge.
As it settles, Bulgarian rose and violet share the center in an unusual balance—neither sweet nor powdery in the typical sense. The violet adds a cool, slightly soapy quality that keeps the rose from becoming too opulent, while the incense lingers underneath, threading smoke through petals.
The vanilla in the base rounds everything without dominating. This reads as a transitional fragrance: floral enough for daytime offices, warm enough for evening, and restrained enough to wear year-round. It suits someone drawn to florals but wary of conventional romance.
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.
