Heures d'Absence
May rose opens with a fresh, dewy floral — green-rosy and slightly tart rather than jammy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Rose70
- Floral60
- Yellow Floral50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- May Rose
- Raspberry
- Mimosa
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMay rose opens with a fresh, dewy floral — green-rosy and slightly tart rather than jammy. The note feels morning-cool, and it sets the composition's restrained tone from the first breath.
In the heart, raspberry adds a bright fruity sparkle without going syrupy, and mimosa threads in with a soft yellow-floral powderiness that has a slight honeyed lift. The combination is light and airy — fruit and flower in delicate balance rather than competing for attention.
The base is gentle: sandalwood gives a creamy woody warmth, vanilla rounds the finish softly, and musk anchors close to skin. The overall character is a refined floral-fruity, polished and quietly luxurious, with the rose-mimosa pairing carrying the identity throughout the wear.
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.
