The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Green50
- Violet50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Violet
- Rose
- Magnolia
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min read# Paul Smith Rose
A rose stripped of its traditional opulence, presented instead through a lens of British restraint. The opening plays violet against rose in near-equal measure, creating a cool, slightly powdered effect that feels more garden path than bouquet. There's an airy quality here, as if the florals have been diluted with morning mist.
As it settles, magnolia adds a creamy softness without tipping into sweetness, while cedar provides just enough structure to keep everything from floating away entirely. The musk in the base is clean and close to the skin, never assertive. The result is a rose perfume for those who find most rose perfumes too much—understated to the point of near-transparency, more about suggestion than statement. It reads as deliberately unpretentious, almost cautiously so, wearing like a well-made shirt rather than a gown.
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.