Obsessed for Women Intense
Elemi — a resinous material with a citric, slightly piney edge — opens alongside mandarin, giving the top notes transparent brightness with a faint incense undertone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender65
- Amber55
- Musky55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Elemi
- Citruses
- Mandarin Orange
- Violet Leaf
- Sage
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readElemi — a resinous material with a citric, slightly piney edge — opens alongside mandarin, giving the top notes transparent brightness with a faint incense undertone. The heart turns herbal: lavender and sage pull the fragrance into aromatic, almost fougère territory, while violet leaf adds a cool green sharpness.
Labdanum and amber warm the base gradually, making this drier and more structured than the original Obsessed for Women. The construction owes more to classic masculine aromatic architecture than to conventional women's florals — no sweetness, no soft powder, just herbs over amber. It reads as a deliberate gender pivot within the line and wears best in temperate weather.
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.
