Eau de Madeleine
Leather dominates the opening, dense and slightly smoky, setting a dark tone before incense rises, dry and resinous, cutting through the hide with ash-grey ribbons.
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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates the opening, dense and slightly smoky, setting a dark tone before incense rises, dry and resinous, cutting through the hide with ash-grey ribbons. Rose enters next, not fresh but cured, its petals folded into the incense smoke so floral sweetness arrives as a muted pulse rather than a bloom. Sandalwood steadies the heart, creamy enough to soften the leather’s grain while myrrh and benzoin thicken the air with a balsamic drag that slows diffusion. Vanilla warms the base, pairing with musk to create a powdery skin-print that smells like worn jacket lining dusted with old cosmetics. The final trail is dry leather, sweetened resin and pale sandalwood, projecting arm-length for six hours then settling into a quiet, suede-musk skin layer.
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.
