Scarlet Rain
Blood orange opens juicy and slightly bitter, with that distinctive ruby tone hinting at red fruit before any rose appears.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Rose
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens juicy and slightly bitter, with that distinctive ruby tone hinting at red fruit before any rose appears. The citrus is brief but warm-leaning rather than bright-cool.
Rose enters the heart almost immediately, soft and rounded, picking up a warm aldehydic sparkle that lifts the whole composition. There's a faint rum-like booziness threading through, perhaps from how the rose pairs with what's coming, lending a dressed-up evening feel.
The base on benzoin, amber, and musk brings a warm balsamic finish — benzoin's vanillic resin rounding the amber, musk smoothing the texture into a soft skin glow. Overall the character is a citrus-rose-amber that's warm rather than fresh, cool-weather and evening-leaning, polished without being formal, romantic without being heavy.
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.
