Black Amber
Seaweed and incense open in unusual conversation — seaweed salty and iodine-sharp, incense smoky and resinous.
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.
- Marine60
- Salty50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Seaweed
- Incense
- Incense
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readSeaweed and incense open in unusual conversation — seaweed salty and iodine-sharp, incense smoky and resinous. The combination is bracing, marine and churchy at once, with nothing to ease the entry.
Incense continues into the heart, joined by cedar. The repetition keeps the composition committed to its smoky concept, while cedar adds a dry woody backbone that lifts the resin without softening it.
Sandalwood, ambergris, Madagascar vanilla, patchouli, and styrax bring rich balsamic warmth. Ambergris adds salt-skin glow, vanilla smooth sweetness, patchouli earthy weight, styrax leathery resin. Overall: a salty smoky amber with marine accents — dark, heavy, built for cold weather and deliberate wear.
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.