Vera Wang
Rose opens with a soft, slightly powdery freshness that feels groomed rather than romantic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Gardenia
- Musk
- Gardenia
- Lily
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readRose opens with a soft, slightly powdery freshness that feels groomed rather than romantic. Gardenia takes over quickly at the heart, rendered creamy and lush with the slightly mushroomy, lactonic quality real gardenia carries.
Lily threads through alongside the gardenia, lending a clean, waxy white-floral support that keeps the heart from going too indolic. The overall floral phase is rich but never heady, polished into something department-store accessible without losing presence.
Musk in the base softens everything into a skin-close warmth, with a faint powdery dryness that lingers. The character is feminine in a classical bridal mode, suited to date wear, dinners, and cooler-weather occasions where the floral reads as elegant rather than youthful.
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