The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Tonka55
- Vanilla45
- Iris Powder40
- Iris35
By the editors · 2 min readA rose perfume that refuses to whisper. Parfait de Rôses opens with a sharp bite of pink pepper cutting through petals, announcing itself before settling into a plush, almost creamy rose heart. This isn't dewy garden rose—it's rose as velvet, warmed and slightly powdered by orris, grounded by olibanum's resinous smoke.
The base wraps everything in tonka and vanilla softness, with benzoin adding gentle amber warmth. The effect is less soliflore and more rose-as-comfort, the kind you'd find in a mahogany-paneled library rather than a morning garden. It wears close but tenacious, polite but present.
Suited to anyone drawn to classic rose fragrances who wants them modernized without losing warmth. The name promises perfection; the perfume delivers plushness instead, which may be better.
