Rose
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot's bright citrus to create a crisp green-citrus accord that feels dewy rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot's bright citrus to create a crisp green-citrus accord that feels dewy rather than sweet. Lily and ylang-ylang bloom in the heart, their white floral creaminess softening the violet leaf's edge while peach adds a velvety skin-touch texture that makes the rose feel tactile rather than abstract. The rose itself emerges as a clean, tea-stained petal note that rides between the creamy florals and the woody base. Vanilla thickens the composition while cedar provides dry pencil-shaving structure, letting patchouli's earthy facet ground the florals without turning heavy. Musk sheathes everything in a clean skin aura that keeps the rose polite and office-appropriate. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, making it a versatile spring-through-early-fall option for work or casual settings where traditional rose might feel too formal.
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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.
