Sonnet About White Rose (Сонет О Белой Розе)
No top or heart notes are listed, which makes this a base-only structure on paper: white musk, amber, castoreum, and rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Animalic60
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- White Musk
- Amber
- Castoreum
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readNo top or heart notes are listed, which makes this a base-only structure on paper: white musk, amber, castoreum, and rose. The composition is effectively a drydown from the first minute.
Castoreum is the surprise — leathery, slightly tarry, with an animalic depth that pulls the rose down from prettiness into something darker and more skin-like. The amber wraps around both materials, lending warm resinous weight.
White musk smooths and extends; without it, the castoreum would dominate. The overall character reads as a rose-leather-animalic accord with vintage chypre-leather DNA — closer to old-world animalic florals than modern clean ones. Cooler-weather, evening-leaning, with intimate projection but a long, slow-shifting drydown. Sparse pyramid means inference is heavier than usual.
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.
