Mumbai Noise
Mumbai Noise opens with the jolt of dark-roasted coffee, bitter and immediate, like stepping into a crowded café at rush hour.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Sweet75
- Balsamic70
- Woody65
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readMumbai Noise opens with the jolt of dark-roasted coffee, bitter and immediate, like stepping into a crowded café at rush hour. It doesn't linger in that caffeine brightness for long—tonka bean softens the edges, adding a sweet, almost almond-like warmth that pulls the composition toward skin rather than air.
As it settles, sandalwood and labdanum create a resinous base that feels heavier than typical Byredo offerings. The wood here isn't polished or meditative; it's dense and slightly smoky, anchored by labdanum's amber-like grip. The coffee recedes but never fully disappears, threading through like a faint memory of the opening.
This is Byredo at its most grounded and unconventional—urban rather than minimalist, suited to someone who finds comfort in contrasts. It wears close, projecting little beyond arm's length, and feels decidedly cooler-weather despite its warmth.
Scent twins
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