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 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.
- Rose85
- Leather60
- Black Pepper45
- Bergamot20
- Musk20
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.
