Armaf Niche - Bucephalus No. XI
The niche edition opens nearly identically to its standard counterpart — pineapple braced against bergamot, sweet-tart fruit hitting first.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readThe niche edition opens nearly identically to its standard counterpart — pineapple braced against bergamot, sweet-tart fruit hitting first. The black currant is gone here, leaving the pineapple to carry the top alone, and the result reads cleaner if a touch less juicy.
The heart pivots dark with myrrh under jasmine and rose, the resin pulling the floral toward smoke. It holds the fruity-floral tension well into the middle hours, the contrast doing most of the work.
The base swaps oakmoss for ambergris, which makes the drydown warmer and saltier — less mossy-classical, more skin-warm and rounded. Vanilla and musk soften the finish. Longevity is similar; the sillage feels denser. A small reformulation that nudges the same shape toward something more enveloping in cooler 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.



