Embrace Rose Buds and Vanilla
The opening is pure rose—bold, dewy, and almost photographic in its fidelity to petals just unfolding.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Rose100
- Vanilla70
- Woody60
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Damask Rose
- Rose
- Magnolia
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is pure rose—bold, dewy, and almost photographic in its fidelity to petals just unfolding. Damask rose dominates without restraint, sweet but not syrupy, creating an immediate embrace that feels generous rather than cloying. There's a wet, green quality that keeps it from veering into potpourri territory.
As it settles, magnolia brings a creamy softness and iris adds a quiet, powdery elegance that tempers the rose's exuberance. The base is where comfort arrives: sandalwood provides structure, vanilla rounds the edges with warmth, and musk anchors everything in skin-like intimacy. The composition doesn't aim for complexity or subversion—it knows exactly what it is.
This is rose for those who want their florals straightforward and enveloping, a fragrance that wears like cashmere against bare skin. It suits someone who appreciates modern femininity without irony, finding pleasure in softness rather than edge.
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.
