English Rose
English Rose leads with bergamot brightening a damask-rose center — clear, slightly tart, the kind of rose opening that reads as garden rather than perfumed.
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.
- Rose80
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Magnolia
- Peach
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readEnglish Rose leads with bergamot brightening a damask-rose center — clear, slightly tart, the kind of rose opening that reads as garden rather than perfumed.
Magnolia and peach round the heart into something fuller and slightly fruity, taking the edge off the rose without burying it. The composition stays soft and feminine, never thickening into jam.
Sandalwood, amber, and musk hold the drydown on warm-skin terms — close, powdery-clean, more diffuser than projector. It reads as a polite floral for daytime wear, neither vintage nor modern enough to feel marked, which is largely the point.
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.




