Electrum
Ambergris opens things in an austere, marine-animalic register — there is a density here from the first moment, with little in the way of brightness or lift.
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.
- Tobacco70
- Amber70
- Woody60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Rosewood
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris opens things in an austere, marine-animalic register — there is a density here from the first moment, with little in the way of brightness or lift. The single heart note defines the composition's character early.
Guaiac wood brings a smoky, slightly rubbery dryness to the base that pairs naturally with the ambergris. Tobacco adds a dry, almost leathery richness that deepens the smoky quality without veering into full leather territory. Vanilla tempers these heavier elements with a restrained sweetness.
Cedar contributes structure without asserting itself strongly. The result is a spare, animalic, wood-and-smoke composition — austere rather than plush, with tobacco and ambergris doing most of the work.
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.
