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Bulgarian rose dominates the opening, its jammy petals streaked with sharp lemon and bergamot that scissor through the bloom’s sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Rose90
- Mossy80
- Leather60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Cumin
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose dominates the opening, its jammy petals streaked with sharp lemon and bergamot that scissor through the bloom’s sweetness. Within minutes lavender pushes forward, its cool stalky oil draping a grey-green veil over the rose while cumin’s sweaty warmth and pink pepper’s bright snap tug the composition toward a lived-in, slightly carnal skin scent. Ylang-ylang lands in small buttery drops, just enough to round the spices without turning lush. The base is a cool forest floor: birch tar and oakmoss lay a leathery, peat-smoked carpet, sandalwood supplies dry cream, and myrrh offers bitter anise that keeps the sweetness in check; musk acts as binding dust rather than statement. Sillage stays at arm’s length for four hours before collapsing to a resin-tinted wood hum that feels equally appropriate under a tweed jacket or a white T-shirt.
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.
