Rose Jam 2019
The opening delivers a bright, almost astringent lemon peel that cuts through the sweetness you'd expect from the name.
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.
- Rose80
- Citrus70
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening delivers a bright, almost astringent lemon peel that cuts through the sweetness you'd expect from the name. It's sharper than typical rose-jam interpretations, more marmalade than conserve, with a citric bite that keeps the composition from tipping into pure confection.
As it settles, the lemon recedes but never disappears entirely, threading through what becomes a candied, syrupy rose. The effect is sticky and unapologetic—Turkish delight dusted with icing sugar, rose petals macerated in simple syrup. There's little attempt at botanical realism here.
This is for those who want their rose loud, sweet, and decidedly edible. It wears close and warm, more suited to cozy evenings than formal settings, and will feel cloying to anyone with an aversion to gourmand florals.
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.
