Voleur de Roses
Voleur de Roses announces itself with an oddly tart opening—plum and bergamot that feel less like fruit than like something pickled or preserved, a sharpness that keeps the nose alert.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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
- Patchouli70
- Amber55
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readVoleur de Roses announces itself with an oddly tart opening—plum and bergamot that feel less like fruit than like something pickled or preserved, a sharpness that keeps the nose alert. This isn't a rose perfume that flatters or seduces immediately. The patchouli arrives quickly, earthy and almost medicinal, threading through the rose petals and giving them a cool, shadowed quality. It's a rose caught mid-theft, bruised and handled.
As it settles, the sandalwood and benzoin round out the edges without smoothing them entirely. The amber and musk add warmth, but the composition retains a certain dryness, an herbal quality that resists sweetness. This is less about romantic gardens and more about stolen blooms carried in a coat pocket—slightly crushed, faintly bitter, still beautiful. It suits those who prefer their florals complicated rather than polite.
Scent twins
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