La Fille de Berlin
The rose here arrives cold and metallic, almost austere—petals pressed between iron rather than velvet.
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.
- Rose85
- Patchouli70
- Mossy65
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Moss
- Vanilla
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readThe rose here arrives cold and metallic, almost austere—petals pressed between iron rather than velvet. This is Berlin's daughter, not Paris's, and Lutens strips away any softness you might expect. There's a medicinal sharpness at first, something mineral and unforgiving that keeps sweetness at arm's length.
As it settles, honey begins to thread through the composition, but it's dark and earthy rather than golden. Patchouli adds a woody, slightly bitter backbone while moss brings a damp, shadowy quality—imagine stone corridors rather than gardens. The rose never fully warms, maintaining that guarded, cerebral distance.
This is fragrance as architecture: deliberate, angular, more interested in structure than seduction. It suits those who prefer their florals intellectual rather than romantic, who find beauty in restraint and aren't looking to charm a room.
Scent twins
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