Grisette
Bulgarian rose, grapefruit, and bergamot open bright and citrus-rosy, the rose already darker and more red-velvet than dewy-pink, the grapefruit adding pithy bitterness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky80
- Balsamic70
- Fresh50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose, grapefruit, and bergamot open bright and citrus-rosy, the rose already darker and more red-velvet than dewy-pink, the grapefruit adding pithy bitterness.
Incense and frankincense rise into the heart with iris woven through — that pairing creates a smoky powdered cathedral feel where the iris's cool carrot-suede tone gets overlaid with grey resin smoke. The rose persists throughout the middle, deepening rather than fading.
The base brings ambergris, Madagascar vanilla, amber, cedar, and musk — a warm balsamic finish with vanilla rounding the smoke and ambergris adding a salty animalic glow. The drydown reads warm-resinous-rose. Overall the character is an incense-rose-amber composition with refined seriousness, cool-weather and evening-leaning, contemplative more than seductive.
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.
