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The opening is dark and narcotic—honeyed tobacco leaf steeped in cherry liqueur, almost edible in its richness.
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.
- Tobacco95
- Honey85
- Amber60
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is dark and narcotic—honeyed tobacco leaf steeped in cherry liqueur, almost edible in its richness. This isn't the ashtray bitterness of cigarette smoke but the sweetness of unlit pipe tobacco warmed by skin, laced with black plum and a whisper of rose that keeps it from collapsing into dessert territory.
As it settles, the gourmand sweetness recedes slightly, revealing a drier woodiness—cedar and patchouli—that anchors the composition without scrubbing away its decadence. The honey note persists, amber-like, threading through everything.
This is fragrance as velvet upholstery in a speakeasy, late evenings where the line between indulgence and recklessness blurs. It wears bold and unapologetic, better suited to those comfortable with a perfume that announces itself before they do. Cold weather intensifies its plush, enveloping quality.
Scent twins
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