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 19 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
- Patchouli55
- Earthy55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Lily
- Narcissus
- Birch
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Leather
- Birch
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.
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.
