Peau
Ambergris and clary sage open together — the ambergris reads immediately as a soft marine salinity while the sage contributes a dry, slightly herbal clarity.
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.
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Clary Sage
- Musk
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Ambergris
- Clary Sage
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris and clary sage open together — the ambergris reads immediately as a soft marine salinity while the sage contributes a dry, slightly herbal clarity. There's little fanfare here; the opening is understated but precise.
Labdanum and amber deepen the composition as it develops, introducing a resinous warmth that merges with the ambergris rather than overpowering it. Musk runs throughout, pulling the skin close and giving the whole thing an intimate, body-heat quality.
The effect is spare and deliberate — animalic but never loud, resinous but clean in its own way. Suitable across seasons, it wears as a skin scent that rewards proximity and suits quiet occasions over crowded rooms.
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.
