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.
- Rose80
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Rose
- Musk
- Ambrette (Musk Mallow)
By the editors · 2 min readA Perfume In Rose is a three-note soliflore built to deliver exactly what the name promises. Pear softens the rose opening — making it rounder and fruitier — then recedes as a clean, straightforward rose settles in for the duration. The base is ambrette, a musky seed note with a slight fatty, slightly sweet quality that anchors the floral without sweetening it or pulling it into powder. There is nothing beyond that skeleton, which is either the point or a limitation. This wears close, fades without drama, and suits situations that call for light, inoffensive femininity — the kind of scent that registers as clean skin rather than perfume.
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.