This Ember
Musk lands first, a clean animalic flash that quickly folds into a thick amber of ambergris, vanilla and rose.
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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.
- Amber90
- Tobacco80
- Vanilla70
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Musk
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readMusk lands first, a clean animalic flash that quickly folds into a thick amber of ambergris, vanilla and rose. The heart feels like heated honeycomb: the rose stays low, lending a faint floral lift while vanilla thickens the amber into a slow-moving golden mass. Cinnamon sparks up through the seam, dusting the resin with dry heat rather than bakery sweetness. As the accord sinks, tonka, myrrh and cedar dry the syrup, letting tobacco leaves uncurl in a leathery, slightly sour curl that keeps the base from cloying. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, quietly staining scarves and sweater cuffs; cool autumn nights and fireside bars are its natural turf.
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.
