Café Rose (2023)
The coffee here isn't breakfast-counter Americano but something richer and more resinous, darkened with cardamom and saffron until it smells less like a drink and more like an idea of warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody75
- Rose70
- Smoky65
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Coffee
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readThe coffee here isn't breakfast-counter Americano but something richer and more resinous, darkened with cardamom and saffron until it smells less like a drink and more like an idea of warmth. The rose that follows is full-bodied and slightly medicinal in the way Bulgarian rose can be, grounded by patchouli that keeps the floral from turning sweet or polite. Ylang-ylang adds a creamy, almost narcotic thickness.
As it settles, frankincense and sandalwood create a smoky, woody base that feels more like incense burned in a quiet room than anything overtly gourmand. The coffee never fully disappears but becomes part of the amber-tinged backdrop rather than the main event.
This wears close and serious, better suited to cold evenings than bright afternoons. It's for someone who wants rose without softness and coffee without sweetness—a fragrance that favors mood over charm.
Scent twins
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