El Born
El Born opens with honey — literal, warm, slightly waxy — before heliotrope and fig take the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Honey65
- Vanilla65
- Warm Spicy50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Benzoin
- Heliotrope
- Fig
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readEl Born opens with honey — literal, warm, slightly waxy — before heliotrope and fig take the heart. Heliotrope's almond-powder character blends with the milky, woody-sweet fig to create something that hovers between confection and garden. Benzoin keeps the heart resinous and warm. The Madagascar vanilla base is generous, the musk skin-close, sandalwood implied in the background. This is a fragrance in the boutique-niche tradition: intimate, slightly unusual, constructed around an unexpected material pairing. Best on cool days when the honey-fig accord can develop slowly. Barcelona via Grasse.
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.
