Rake & Ruin
Smoke is the first thing — not subtle smoke, but a thick, charred smoulder that arrives the instant the spray lands.
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.
- Leather70
- Animalic55
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Smoke
- Orange
- Lemon
- Orris
- Labdanum
- Smoke
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke is the first thing — not subtle smoke, but a thick, charred smoulder that arrives the instant the spray lands. Pink pepper pricks at the edges, lemon and orange flicker briefly, and they're gone, swallowed by ash.
The heart deepens the bonfire idea: orris adds a cool, dough-grey powder that contrasts the smoke beautifully, labdanum thickens it with sticky resin, violet drops in a faintly sweet candied note, and castoreum supplies a leather-and-fur animalism that's frankly carnal. The composition reads narrative, almost theatrical — a charred building, a wet coat, something living inside both. Sandalwood and more smoke in the base hold the temperature warm; musk threads through without softening. Projection is significant, longevity long.
Overall a fully committed smoke-leather-iris study — divisive, compelling, not for daylight.
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.
