Rose de Russie
A Private Rose Garden release later renamed Rose Exposed after geopolitical events made the original title awkward.
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.
- Rose85
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- White Pepper
- Rose
- Leather
- Leather
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA Private Rose Garden release later renamed Rose Exposed after geopolitical events made the original title awkward. The concept holds regardless: white pepper opens brisk and slightly metallic, warming the rose before it fully arrives rather than competing with it. The heart is a single full-volume rose — dense and slightly jammy, closer to a florist's Damascus rose than a dewy garden variety.
Leather in the base provides the friction point that makes this composition modern rather than vintage: a coolness, an edge, a reason to reach for it when a classic rose eau de parfum feels too soft. Intentionally minimal in its structure, which suits the Private Rose Garden aesthetic. The rose reads best on warm skin; in cold air the pepper dominates. Sharp, confident, deliberate.
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.
