War and Peace
Amber opens thick and resinous, pouring a honeyed glow that immediately feels animalic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy60
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Damask Rose
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readAmber opens thick and resinous, pouring a honeyed glow that immediately feels animalic. Damask rose enters next, its petals dusted with earth and faint iodide sweetness, softening the amber’s heat while still letting the musky castoreum shadow show through. Within thirty minutes oakmoss and vetiver split the fragrance: the moss adds cool loam and a touch of bitterness, vetiver sharpens with dry grass, and together they keep the amber from sliding into syrup. Ambergris arrives quietly, lending a warm-skin brine that blurs the edges and marries fur to forest floor. Projection stays arm’s-length for six hours, then settles to a private amber glow laced with quiet leather; wear it in cool weather when you want old-book depth without shouting.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
