Stella
Stella opens with a raw, vegetal quality—green petals wet from rain, the faint bitterness of cut stems.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Rose75
- Green35
- Amber25
- Fig Leaf20
- Iris15
By the editors · 2 min readStella opens with a raw, vegetal quality—green petals wet from rain, the faint bitterness of cut stems. Rose dominates, but not the powdered kind; this is rose water with a metallic edge, almost austere in its simplicity. Peony adds a softer, soapy whisper around the edges, keeping it from turning too severe.
As it settles, amber provides just enough warmth to round out the composition without sweetening it. The greenness persists longer than expected, refusing to evolve into anything plush or comforting. There's an intentional restraint here, a deliberate stripping away of typical floral perfume gestures.
This suits someone who wants presence without performance—clean in the literal sense rather than the marketing one. It reads youthful but not naïve, minimal but not cold. A rose for people who normally avoid rose perfumes.
