Roma
Roma opens with a startling brightness: mint folded into the tart sweetness of black currant, a green-fruit coolness that feels both bracing and strangely old-fashioned.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral75
- Amber70
- Mossy70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Mint
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readRoma opens with a startling brightness: mint folded into the tart sweetness of black currant, a green-fruit coolness that feels both bracing and strangely old-fashioned. Within minutes, the sharpness softens into a full-bodied white floral heart—jasmine and lily of the valley dominate, with rose lending a powdery polish. This is big perfumery from the late eighties, unafraid of volume or convention.
The base reveals the fragrance's real architecture. Oakmoss and sandalwood anchor a thick weave of amber, vanilla, and animalic musk, with civet adding a faint, sour-sweet warmth and myrrh lending resinous depth. The overall effect is round, diffusive, enveloping—less a composition than a mood, something between classical chypre and gourmand comfort.
Roma suits those who miss when perfume announced itself across a room, when femininity wasn't required to whisper. It feels grand without irony, generous without apologizing.
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Scent twins
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