Ambre Noir
A creamy magnolia-bergamot opening laced with myrrh's bitter-resinous smoke sets a warm, slightly church-like tone from the first minute, more contemplative than bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Oud70
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Myrrh
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA creamy magnolia-bergamot opening laced with myrrh's bitter-resinous smoke sets a warm, slightly church-like tone from the first minute, more contemplative than bright.
The heart pivots into a dense balsamic accord: sandalwood and labdanum braided with amber, the labdanum carrying a leathery, sticky warmth that reinforces the resinous direction. The magnolia fades quickly, leaving the resin-and-wood core to dominate.
The drydown intensifies the amber: a deep, golden balsamic warmth with a smoky leather undertone and musk smoothing the close. The overall reading is a true ambre noir, dense and warm with a smoky-leathery underside that gives it weight. Projection is strong in the first hours, longevity excellent, built for cold-weather evening wear and confident, intimate contexts.
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.
