Romanza
Romanza from Masque Milano is a Victorian narcissus study filtered through an absinthe fog.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Artemisia
- Absinthe
- Orange Blossom
- Angelica
- Narcissus
- Anise
- Violet Leaf
By the editors · 2 min readRomanza from Masque Milano is a Victorian narcissus study filtered through an absinthe fog. Cristiano Canali opens with artemisia, angelica, and absinthe over orange blossom — herbal, green, and slightly medicinal — before French narcissus takes the heart, flanked by jasmine and violet leaf. The narcissus here is the genuine article: waxy, slightly indolic, complex.
Vetiver, myrrh, cedar, patchouli, and amber in the base build a dark, resinous foundation that carries the composition into evening comfortably. This is the niche house's approach at its most uncompromising — austere and unfamiliar at first, then deeply interesting on further wear. Not a fragrance for casual days.
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.
