Burlesque
Blood orange provides a tart, slightly bitter opening that fades quickly, making way for a heart of iris and rose.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Iris
- Rose
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange provides a tart, slightly bitter opening that fades quickly, making way for a heart of iris and rose. The iris reads powdery and cool rather than rooty, the rose adding warmth without becoming overtly romantic or sweet.
Incense and frankincense arrive in the base with dry, resinous weight. Patchouli ties them together with earthy richness, pulling the composition toward a smoky, balsamic quality. The floral midpoint dissolves into the resinous base rather than disappearing entirely.
The result is a structured floral-oriental that sits closer to smoky incense than to traditional florals. Best suited to cool evenings when something austere and deliberate is appropriate.
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.
