Rose de Petra
Rose de Petra opens with pomegranate cutting through rose — not sweetening it, but sharpening it, bringing tartness to a note that can too easily become saccharine.
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.
- Rose80
- Cardamom40
- Musk30
- Amber20
- Peach20
By the editors · 2 min readRose de Petra opens with pomegranate cutting through rose — not sweetening it, but sharpening it, bringing tartness to a note that can too easily become saccharine. The pomegranate reads as actual fruit rather than candy: bright, slightly astringent, with juice and skin together. It's an unusual opening accord that works.
Bulgarian rose takes command in the heart, and this is where the fragrance earns its niche positioning. The rose is full and direct, neither powdered nor synthetic, with the slightly waxy, green quality that distinguishes the Bulgarian variety. At the base, cumin and cardamom arrive with warmth and a faint animalic edge — the cumin particularly grounding what might otherwise float too cleanly. A serious rose for those who actually want rose.
