Per Fumum: Ambar
Ginger and cardamom offer a warm-spicy opening alongside bright bergamot, quickly deepening into a heart of orris, jasmine, and tobacco.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom offer a warm-spicy opening alongside bright bergamot, quickly deepening into a heart of orris, jasmine, and tobacco. Rose adds a floral nuance that blends seamlessly into a rich base of labdanum, amber, and sandalwood. Patchouli and vetiver provide earthy depth, while ambergris lends a subtle animalic warmth to the dry-down. The scent evolves significantly over time, from spicy-aromatic to resinous-woody. Projection is strong initially, settling to a moderate sillage that persists for over twelve hours. This complex composition suits fall and winter evenings, ideal for formal or special occasions. Its warm amber core performs best in cool to cold weather.
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.




