Materia
Labdanum dominates the heart, releasing a resinous amber glow that smells simultaneously leathery and honeyed, creating a smoky-sweet aura around the wearer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLabdanum dominates the heart, releasing a resinous amber glow that smells simultaneously leathery and honeyed, creating a smoky-sweet aura around the wearer. Musk settles beside it, amplifying the warmth while adding a faintly salty skin-tone that keeps the resin from turning syrupy. In the base, sandalwood arrives dry and pale, its creamy facets shaved away to leave a cedar-like crispness that braces the labdanum’s richness. Patchouli provides crumbly earth, darkening the wood and extending the slightly bitter edge already hinted by the resin. Over hours the composition folds into a monochrome amber-wood panel, matte rather than glossy, projecting a low hum that stays within personal space and feels most comfortable against thick sweaters or leather jackets during cool weather.
Scent twins
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