Checkmate
Magnolia opens cool and waxy, its lemon-tinged petals shearing through the stereo rose block of Bulgarian, centifolia and damascena absolutes that arrive seconds later.
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.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Bulgarian Rose
- Rose
- May Rose
- Moss
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens cool and waxy, its lemon-tinged petals shearing through the stereo rose block of Bulgarian, centifolia and damascena absolutes that arrive seconds later. The triple-rose heart fuses into one plush, jammy crimson layer, sweetened by magnolia’s creamy lactones so the bouquet reads as velvet rather than sharp thorns. Patchouli enters early, dragging a bittersweet cocoa darkness that dries the roses and pulls them toward the base. There, moss and tobacco split the texture: green, briny dampness smokes against cured-leaf warmth, creating an earthy, slightly bitter counterpane that keeps the flowers from tipping into syrup. Wear clings close for six hours then settles to a quiet skin-hum of rose-tinted tobacco best suited to cool days and unhurried evenings.
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Scent twins
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