War And Peace Part II
Amber opens dense and resinous, immediately weighted by castoreum’s musky fur.
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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
- Mossy80
- Animalic70
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Orris
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readAmber opens dense and resinous, immediately weighted by castoreum’s musky fur. Orris arrives next, its cool carrot-root starch sheening the amber into a polished, leather-tinged panel while rose adds a soft crimson glow that keeps the accord from turning tarry. Oakmoss and ambergris extend that mid-phase, the moss giving a dry lichen crackle and the ambergris injecting salty marine lift that stops the resin from collapsing into syrup. Vetiver threads smoke through the base, its rooty bitterness anchoring the composition so it settles as a dark, moss-veined amber skin-scent rather than a sweet oriental. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, projecting best in cool fall evenings or under a wool coat.
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.
