Gold Fair In Mayfair
A dry, golden ambergris built around a savory iris-and-cocoa heart — the kind of composition that reads as warm metal more than warm sugar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Amber70
- Chocolate70
- Iris60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Cocoa
- Iris
- Ambrox
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readA dry, golden ambergris built around a savory iris-and-cocoa heart — the kind of composition that reads as warm metal more than warm sugar. Nutmeg opens it with a brittle, slightly oily spice rather than a sharp one.
The heart is the unusual move: cocoa stripped of its dessert weight and folded against sage's bitter green and iris's cold powder. The cocoa is bitter, almost rooty, and the sage keeps it from drifting toward gourmand. Iris holds the room cool.
The base is built for diffusion — frankincense and styrax give a smoky-resin lift, vetiver keeps the rooty thread, and twin ambroxan-style musks (Ambrox + Ambroxan) push everything outward in a clean, slightly metallic glow that lasts through the day.
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.
