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 13 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Myrrh
- White Musk
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.
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.
