Amber
Bergamot opens briefly — polished and slightly bitter — before yielding to lavender and pink pepper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly — polished and slightly bitter — before yielding to lavender and pink pepper. Lavender takes the lead immediately, clean and camphor-bright, while pink pepper adds a dry rose-tinged warm-spicy lift. The combination reads aromatic and crisp from the first minutes.
The development is narrow: with only one base note, the perfume moves quickly from heart to drydown.
Labdanum closes the structure. Its resinous, slightly smoky, leathery sweetness anchors the lavender with an ambery warmth that recalls traditional amber accords. No vanilla, no animalic, no wood — just labdanum carrying the entire base, giving the drydown a streamlined balsamic glow. Overall a lavender-amber composition built on a single resinous spine. Projection moderate, longevity strong.
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.
