Bracken Woman
Bracken Woman is organized around a central tension: lily and narcissus bring a floral quality to a composition that is otherwise emphatically earthy.
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.
- Leather60
- Vetiver55
- Patchouli55
- Oakmoss50
- Green45
By the editors · 2 min readBracken Woman is organized around a central tension: lily and narcissus bring a floral quality to a composition that is otherwise emphatically earthy. Narcissus specifically — with its cold, slightly narcotic, indolic character — holds that tension together, floral enough to reference beauty but dark enough to belong to the composition's wilder register.
Leather sits in the heart alongside the florals, not as a sharp material accord but as a textural note, giving the composition an animalic depth that sets Amouage's chypres apart from lighter entries in the genre. Birch in the base contributes its characteristic tar-adjacent smokiness — outdoorsy rather than industrial — and vetiver and patchouli anchor everything to damp earth.
A fragrance that smells like walking through a forest after rain, for those who want that experience to be luxurious.
