Danse Lascive
Birch opens with a raw, tarry edge that frames the Bulgarian rose in a cold, green-smoke register rather than sweetness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather90
- Tobacco80
- Smoky70
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Bulgarian Rose
- Saffron
- Tobacco
- Suede
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBirch opens with a raw, tarry edge that frames the Bulgarian rose in a cold, green-smoke register rather than sweetness. Saffron threads a dry, leathery spice through the rose, pulling it away from floral territory and into something almost abrasive. Heart layers of tobacco and suede thicken the texture: the leaf adds a damp, fermented depth while suede muffles the birch tar, creating a muted, vintage-hide accord. In the base, civet lifts the moss and resins with a salty growl that keeps the composition from turning heavy; labdanum and cedar provide a rough, resinous wood platform that lingers close to skin. Projection stays reserved, a cool-weather skin-scent suited to dark wool and low light.
Scent twins
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