Ambre Gris
Ambre Gris opens with bergamot sharpened by pink pepper and cinnamon — warm spice wrapped in citrus, like mulled wine held near an open window.
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.
- Amber65
- Incense45
- Tuberose40
- Musk40
- Cinnamon35
By the editors · 2 min readAmbre Gris opens with bergamot sharpened by pink pepper and cinnamon — warm spice wrapped in citrus, like mulled wine held near an open window. Tuberose arrives alongside myrrh in the heart, a combination that turns unexpectedly ecclesiastical: floral and incense begin to bleed together, sweetened by benzoin's vanilla-adjacent resin and the waxy, faintly oceanic depth of ambergris.
Styrax binds everything in a resinous haze as the drydown settles. The finish is long, smoky, and subtly animalic — musk and guaiac wood extending warmth well past the point you expect it to fade. This rewards patience and belongs to colder months.
