The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Vanilla65
- Amber55
- Musk55
- Jasmine50
By the editors · 2 min readRoses Greedy makes good on both words in its title. The opening is tropical and heady — coconut and peach providing lush sun-warmed sweetness, black currant adding tartness, pink pepper giving a faint spiced edge that briefly suggests the composition might take a more complex direction. Rose and jasmine arrive at the heart with confidence: full-bodied, warm, and not remotely shy.
The base is where greedy becomes the operative word: benzoin, amber, and vanilla build a deep, slightly resinous sweetness that the rose and coconut of earlier chapters fold into. White musk keeps it from becoming cloying by adding airiness without diluting the warmth. The effect is indulgent in the best sense — a fragrance that leans into its pleasures and asks no apologies. For warm skin and warm evenings.
