Angel
The opening is herbal-green — rosemary cut sharp against galbanum's bitter sap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Vanilla60
- Amber60
- Lavender60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Galbanum
- Lavender
- Heliotrope
- Nutmeg
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is herbal-green — rosemary cut sharp against galbanum's bitter sap. There is nothing celestial about it for the first ten minutes; the name does not match the early arc.
Lavender takes over as the green burns off, with heliotrope adding an almond-cherry softness and nutmeg keeping the heart from getting candied. The transition into the base is where the perfume earns its name: amber and vanilla puddle warmly under the herbs, musk smoothing the edges into something gauzy.
It reads as a herbal-fougère-meets-oriental, the spine sharper than most of its sweet siblings. Versatile through cooler months.
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.