LE SNOB No I Gothic Rose
Incense opens cold and waxy, its mineral smoke cutting through neroli’s candied-orange brightness to create an almost church-like chill.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Neroli
- Cinnamon
- Plum
- Rose
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readIncense opens cold and waxy, its mineral smoke cutting through neroli’s candied-orange brightness to create an almost church-like chill. The heart swells with a jammy plum-cinnamon accord that stains the rose petals deep burgundy, turning the bloom leathery rather than sweet. As skin warms, the leather stretches, picking up a dry cedar spine while amber and vanilla slowly caramelise the plum residue without softening the ashy incense core. Dry-down keeps the leather-incense tandem smouldering, musk adding quiet human warmth but never powder. Projection stays arm-length for six hours, dropping to a smoky skin trail that reads dark-romantic rather than gothic. Cool autumn nights, black denim, outdoor concerts where the air already smells of burnt leaves.
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.
