Narciso Rodriguez For Her
The musk arrives first—not powdery or sharp, but a radiating warmth that feels almost tactile.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Musky100
- Amber80
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Musk
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe musk arrives first—not powdery or sharp, but a radiating warmth that feels almost tactile. Osmanthus hovers nearby, lending an apricot-suede softness that keeps the composition from turning clinical. Bergamot brightens the edges without dominating, a flicker of citrus that fades quickly into the heart.
As it settles, amber wraps around the musk, creating a skin-like glow that reads as intimate rather than projective. Vetiver and patchouli anchor the base with a restrained earthiness, preventing the sweetness from floating away entirely. The overall effect is minimalist in the architectural sense—clean lines, warm materials, nothing extraneous.
This is fragrance as second skin for those who prefer suggestion over announcement. It works best when worn close, in contexts where subtlety carries more weight than spectacle. The kind of perfume that lingers in an elevator after you've left.
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.
Where readers placed it
Skin scents — close-wearing
For the person who wants to smell like themselves, only more so. Soft musks, pale woods, and near-invisible ambers that hover a few inches from skin and go no further. Not absence — presence at close range. Someone has to lean in to catch them.
