Rhea
Rhea starts with a warm haze of saffron and pink pepper, the saffron adding a dusty-metallic quality that lifts against mandarin orange in a pairing that announces warm oriental rather than bright floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris70
- Amber70
- Patchouli50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Mandarin Orange
- Iris
- Violet
- Nutmeg
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readRhea starts with a warm haze of saffron and pink pepper, the saffron adding a dusty-metallic quality that lifts against mandarin orange in a pairing that announces warm oriental rather than bright floral. The opening reads dense and spiced from the first spray.
Iris and violet take the heart into powdery-purple territory, with rose providing softer complement and nutmeg keeping a faint spice thread alive from the opening. The drydown settles into a standard woody-oriental: sandalwood, cedar, patchouli, and amber layered over musk, with moss adding dry earthiness at the edges. The overall arc is the warm, softly spiced feminine oriental that characterized mid-2000s perfumery. Best suited to cool weather and evening wear.
Scent twins
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