Rose Ishtar
Bergamot opens with a clean citrus lift before the heart arrives as a dual-rose accord — Bulgarian and Damask together, soft and slightly waxy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Damask Rose
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a clean citrus lift before the heart arrives as a dual-rose accord — Bulgarian and Damask together, soft and slightly waxy. There's a gentle freshness at the surface that doesn't last long before the warm base takes over.
Heliotrope and vanilla push the rose into powdery, almost almond-edged territory, while patchouli keeps the sweetness from drifting too far. Sandalwood provides a smooth, creamy foundation. Musk holds everything close to the skin.
The overall effect is a warm, rose-centered floral built for wear rather than statement. It sits in well-trodden territory — powdery rose over a sweet, woody base — without sharp edges or surprises.
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.
