Obsession
Obsession opens with an immediate collision of brightness and warmth—citrus and peach dissolve almost instantly into a thick, resinous heart where jasmine and orange blossom hover over dark, mossy wood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy90
- Amber85
- Floral85
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Basil
- Vanilla
- Vanilla
- Peach
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readObsession opens with an immediate collision of brightness and warmth—citrus and peach dissolve almost instantly into a thick, resinous heart where jasmine and orange blossom hover over dark, mossy wood. There's nothing light about this development. The florals are dense, nearly narcotic, weighted down by sandalwood and oakmoss that feel more like architecture than decoration.
What anchors the composition is an animalic undertone that grows more insistent as it dries. Incense smoke, amber, and a musky civet blur together into something unapologetically carnal and tenacious. The vanilla never sweetens it—it just adds a slightly powdery facet to the haze.
This is the scent of 1980s ambition rendered in perfume: bold, invasive, designed to announce presence rather than whisper it. It suits those unbothered by subtlety, who understand that some perfumes are meant to dominate a room.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
