Roja
Roja, the eponymous flagship, is the house's most classical statement.
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.
- Balsamic60
- Patchouli55
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- May Rose
- Ginger
- Oakmoss
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readRoja, the eponymous flagship, is the house's most classical statement. A sliver of bergamot, then a small floral heart of May rose and ylang acting as a hinge — and from there the scent is all base.
Ginger and cinnamon warm the opening of the drydown; oakmoss, patchouli and iris construct a chypre frame; civet and ambergris pull in the animalics; labdanum, benzoin, vanilla, clove and styrax fill the resinous middle ground. The architecture is mid-century European: a dark, slow, layered oriental-chypre with no modern shortcuts. It wears formal — projecting strongly for the first few hours and dropping to a moss-and-resin trail that lasts well into the next day.
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.
