Dom Rosa
The opening is sleek and mildly sweet, pear rendered more as a gloss than fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky60
- Rose55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Grapefruit
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Clove
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sleek and mildly sweet, pear rendered more as a gloss than fruit. It fades quickly into something more contemplative: damask rose wrapped in incense smoke, the olibanum lending a resinous coolness that keeps the floral from tipping sentimental. This isn't rose water or rose oil, but rose as architectural element, held upright by frankincense.
The woods underneath—guaiac, vetiver, cedar—are dry and slightly medicinal, grounding the composition without adding warmth. The effect is monastic, almost austere, rose viewed through the lens of ritual rather than romance. It wears close and quiet, more suited to someone who prefers their florals shadowed and cerebral. A rose for rooms lit by stone walls and narrow windows.
Scent twins
In this family
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