Rose by Cardin
A small puff of cardamom flares at the start, more aromatic than warming, then quickly hands off to a creamy, slightly aldehydic floral chord.
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.
- Yellow Floral60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA small puff of cardamom flares at the start, more aromatic than warming, then quickly hands off to a creamy, slightly aldehydic floral chord. Jasmine and ylang-ylang sit forward — yellow-floral, lush, faintly indolic — propped up by lily of the valley's green dewiness and rose's softer pulse.
As it develops, the base settles into a powdery warmth: sandalwood and amber rounded by patchouli's earthy purr, with vetiver lending a smoky-mineral undertow and a thread of incense drifting through. Musk smooths it together into something plush.
Overall character: a softly retro powdery-floral with a resinous, slightly smoky woody backbone — projection moderate, ten paces of presence before settling closer to the skin.
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.
