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Byredo · Est. 2014

Mojave Ghost

The opening is a dry whisper—dusty violet petals and something faintly mineral, like sun-bleached stone.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2014
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
Mojave Ghost — Byredo
2014 · Fragrance
san·ced·iri·amb
Rating
3.9
6.0k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 7 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.

  • Sandalwood
    70
  • Cedar
    60
  • Iris Powder
    60
  • Amber
    50
  • Iris
    45

By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a dry whisper—dusty violet petals and something faintly mineral, like sun-bleached stone. There's an airiness here that resists typical floral sweetness, as though magnolia has been stripped of its indolic weight and left translucent against pale wood.

As it settles, sandalwood emerges with surprising restraint, more powder than cream, while cedar adds a skeletal frame. The ambergris hovers at the edges, lending salt and skin without turning animalic. The overall effect is ghostly in the literal sense—present but barely there, a silhouette rather than a portrait.

This suits people who find most florals too loud and most woods too heavy. It works best in heat, where its minimalism reads as intentional rather than thin, and on skin that amplifies rather than swallows quiet compositions.

Filed: ByredoSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap