Ambre
Freesia and bergamot open with a cool, watery citrus-floral lift that feels more shampoo-sheer than cologne-bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readFreesia and bergamot open with a cool, watery citrus-floral lift that feels more shampoo-sheer than cologne-bright. Within minutes white petals stack: magnolia’s chilled lemon cream, jasmine’s faint indole, lily-of-the-valley’s green soap, and a soft rosy powder that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. The heart is a clean, pastel floral cloud rather than a distinct bouquet, hovering lightly over skin. Amber arrives early, a smooth labdanum-cedar tandem that adds gentle warmth and a blond-wood rasp, while clean white musk flattens the base into a skin-close, fabric-softener hum. Projection stays polite, sillage arm’s-length for about four hours, then collapses to a musky cedar fuzz. Office-safe spring scent that behaves like a freshly laundered white shirt.
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.
