Madame Rose
Bergamot and nutmeg open with a citrus-spice combination — the nutmeg's warm, aromatic quality contrasting with bergamot's clean brightness from the first application.
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.
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- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla
- Peony
- Musk
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and nutmeg open with a citrus-spice combination — the nutmeg's warm, aromatic quality contrasting with bergamot's clean brightness from the first application. The spice is dry and assertive, not sweetened. Incense and cedar form the base, with incense introducing a resinous, slightly smoky quality and cedar providing a dry, sharp wood foundation.
The overall character is spare and slightly austere: spiced citrus top, resinous-smoky base, with no sweetness or florals to soften the edges. The incense-nutmeg-bergamot axis reads as quietly masculine and meditative. A minimalist construction that suits cool, formal settings where its disciplined restraint reads as purposeful.
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.




