Santal Café
Birch opens with a sharp, smoky edge that quickly settles into a leathery heart.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Caramel
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBirch opens with a sharp, smoky edge that quickly settles into a leathery heart. Tobacco and caramel weave together, creating a sweet yet rugged core that feels both indulgent and masculine. The base introduces tonka bean's vanillic warmth alongside earthy patchouli and dry oakmoss, grounding the composition with a mossy, slightly sweet finish. This scent evolves from initial smokiness to a complex, resinous dry-down that lingers close to the skin. Longevity extends through the day with moderate sillage that remains intimate after the first hour. Best suited for cool fall and winter evenings, it carries a confident, slightly brooding character ideal for dates or formal settings.
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.
