Journey of Life - Extrait of Dreams
Clary sage opens with a herbal, slightly camphorous quality — dry and medicinal at first, with an earthy undertone that signals this is not a conventional composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Animalic60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Clary Sage
- Cypriol
- Plum
- Vetiver
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readClary sage opens with a herbal, slightly camphorous quality — dry and medicinal at first, with an earthy undertone that signals this is not a conventional composition. There is no sweetness to soften the entry.
Plum arrives in the heart, adding a dark, almost fermented fruitiness that pairs uneasily but deliberately with the castoreum's animalic leather character. Vetiver grounds the base with dry, smoky wood, tying the animal and botanical elements together into something austere.
The overall feel is intentionally rough — dark, leathery, and smoky rather than polished. It sits close to skin and rewards patience, revealing small shifts in its austere character over time.
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.
