Pour Une Femme de Caron
The opening is deceptively bright—a brief flare of orange that dissolves almost immediately into tendrils of incense smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Smoky80
- Woody75
- Amber65
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Incense
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is deceptively bright—a brief flare of orange that dissolves almost immediately into tendrils of incense smoke. This is not ceremonial frankincense but something drier, more austere, with a faintly metallic edge that keeps the composition from drifting into sweetness. The citrus acts less as a note and more as a catalyst, illuminating the resinous heart before stepping aside.
As it settles, sandalwood and amber create a warm, slightly powdery base that feels more like well-worn linen than opulent velvet. The musk stays close to the skin, rounding out the sharper facets of the incense without smothering them. The overall effect is meditative rather than seductive—a fragrance that suggests quiet mornings and introspection.
This suits someone drawn to minimalism with depth, who finds comfort in restraint. It's not meant to project across a room but to create a private atmosphere, a scent that reveals itself slowly to anyone who comes near enough to notice.
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.
