Rose de Chine
Rose de Chine stages rose's reveal as a narrative event.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Chinese Peony
- Rose
- Myrrh
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readRose de Chine stages rose's reveal as a narrative event. Chinese peony opens on the skin in place of rose, its soft apricot-floral quality leading without announcing. The rose doesn't fully emerge until well into the wear, arriving warm and slightly spiced, built on myrrh and labdanum in the base — resins that lend it a depth and medicinal-smoky quality unlike any standard rose composition.
Oakmoss and patchouli add a chypre undercurrent; star anise a brief anisic warmth. Part of Tom Ford's Private Rose Garden collection, it rewards the patience the fragrance demands — those willing to wait for the rose will find something more nuanced than the opening suggests.
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.
