A Night at the Opera
Labdanum opens resinous and slightly sweet, its balsamic thickness cushioned by a bright bergamot flash that keeps the first minutes from feeling ponderous.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Tobacco90
- Leather70
- Woody60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLabdanum opens resinous and slightly sweet, its balsamic thickness cushioned by a bright bergamot flash that keeps the first minutes from feeling ponderous. A heart of supple leather and dry tobacco leaf folds in, the tobacco lending a hay-like rasp that scuffs the leather’s polished surface so neither dominates. As skin warms, guaiac wood’s smoky pencil-shaving edge rises through the leather, while amber and patchouli deepen the lower register, forming a burnished, softly animalic glow that feels more woody than vanillic. Cashmeran’s fuzzy musk lingers longest, turning the dry-down into a skin-hugging woodsmoke aura that projects no farther than arm’s length yet lasts well past midnight. Cool-weather wear, dim-light concerts, or a worn denim jacket evening suit its quiet smolder.
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.