Ampersand Collection - Cedar & Amber
Black pepper crackles on first spray, its dry heat amplified by nutmeg’s sweet woodiness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles on first spray, its dry heat amplified by nutmeg’s sweet woodiness. Sage enters quickly, adding a camphorous green facet that slices through the spice cake and pulls the scent toward aromatic woods rather than bakery gourmand. Tonka bean lands in the base with a soft almond-coumarin sheen, letting amber spread warm resin while oakmoss supplies a cool, loamy grip that keeps the sweetness in check. Over three hours the peppery edge mellows, leaving a skin-close weave of dusty tonka, earthy moss and low-glow amber that reads quietly masculine. Projection stays within arm’s length; it feels made for cool spring offices or brisk fall weekends when you want polish without statement.
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.




