Rosenrot Intense
The Bulgarian rose here isn't demure—it arrives bold and almost medicinal, backed by leathery smoke before you've had time to settle in.
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.
- Smoky90
- Rose85
- Leather75
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Incense
- Leather
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readThe Bulgarian rose here isn't demure—it arrives bold and almost medicinal, backed by leathery smoke before you've had time to settle in. This is rose through a harder lens, more thorny stem than petal, with incense giving it a severe, chapel-like quality that refuses sweetness.
As it develops, olibanum and labdanum deepen the resinous character while leather adds a worn, tactile edge. The rose never fully softens but becomes more integrated, smoldering rather than blooming. Oakmoss and musk in the base provide a classic chypre skeleton, though ambergris lends an animalic warmth that keeps things from feeling purely austere.
This suits someone drawn to gothic aesthetics without the theatrics—more interested in medieval stonework than vampire novels. It wears close and unapologetic, better for cold evenings than bright mornings, and demands confidence rather than charm.
Scent twins
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