Rose Prick
The rose in Rose Prick announces itself with a bright, slightly green edge before settling into something darker and more textured.
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
- Patchouli60
- Tonka55
- Caramel40
- Vanilla35
By the editors · 2 min readThe rose in Rose Prick announces itself with a bright, slightly green edge before settling into something darker and more textured. Both the Bulgarian and May rose absolutes feel concentrated rather than airy, their petals pressed close to skin. A faint metallic quality—perhaps what gives the fragrance its name—cuts through any sweetness that might threaten.
As it warms, patchouli and tonka bean create a cocoon around the rose, softening its thorns without erasing them entirely. The caramel note reads less like dessert and more like burnt sugar, adding a shadowy depth that keeps the composition from turning too pretty. There's vanilla, but it stays in the background, rounding edges rather than dominating.
This is rose for someone who finds most rose fragrances too demure or too loud. It balances richness with restraint, darkness with clarity—a fragrance that wears close and reveals itself slowly.