Agar de Noir
Guaiac wood and cardamom open with a dry, smoky woodiness paired with warm-spicy aromatic freshness.
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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.
- Woody80
- Amber80
- Balsamic70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Cardamom
- Ambergris
- Saffron
- Violet
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readGuaiac wood and cardamom open with a dry, smoky woodiness paired with warm-spicy aromatic freshness. Saffron and ambergris introduce a complex heart, their leathery and animalic warmth blending with violet's powdery floralcy and coffee's dark roasted bitterness. A base of tonka bean, labdanum, and benzoin creates a rich balsamic amber accord, deeply sweet and resinous. The scent evolves significantly, moving from spicy-woody to a complex animalic-amber dry-down. Projection is potent and long-lasting, filling space for hours, suited for fall and winter evenings and formal occasions in cool to cold weather. This dense composition demands confidence for wear.
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.
