Rose Velours
A plush rose softened to the point of abstraction.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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
- Iris70
- Honey55
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Honey
- Iris
- Rose
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readA plush rose softened to the point of abstraction. The opening brings a cool metallic violet leaf alongside bergamot, creating an initial sharpness that quickly recedes. What emerges is less a garden rose than the memory of one—dusted with iris powder and sweetened by a gentle honey that never veers sticky. The effect is muted and powdery, the rose blurred at its edges.
The base wraps everything in a skin-close warmth. Benzoin and ambroxan provide a soft haze, while cedar offers just enough structure to keep the composition from dissolving entirely. This is rose for those who find most rose perfumes too literal or too loud—subdued, almost grayscale, with a vintage refinement that recalls face powder compacts and silk-lined jewellery boxes. It stays close, whispers rather than projects, and suits anyone drawn to restrained elegance.
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.
