Amber
An aromatic-citrus top with saffron threading through — lavender and lemon kept dry, the saffron giving the brightness a darker, more textured edge from the start.
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.
- Amber70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Sandalwood
- Orris
- Cedar
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAn aromatic-citrus top with saffron threading through — lavender and lemon kept dry, the saffron giving the brightness a darker, more textured edge from the start.
The heart is the most interesting passage: orris and sandalwood crossed with rose and cedar, a powdery-woody floral arrangement that reads cool and slightly austere. There is restraint in the heart that the name does not predict.
The base earns the title — sandalwood doubled, with guaiac wood, labdanum, amber, patchouli and musk built into a deep resinous accord. The amber here is constructed (vanilla-free, labdanum-forward), drier than most of the line. A composed cold-weather 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.
