L'Ambra
Bulgarian rose opens with a slightly sweet, honeyed petal edge that immediately melts into a thick amber core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Amber90
- Rose60
- Woody50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bulgarian Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Olibanum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBulgarian rose opens with a slightly sweet, honeyed petal edge that immediately melts into a thick amber core. The heart stacks sandalwood's dry creaminess beneath the resinous amber while patchouli contributes a cocoa-brown earthiness that keeps the accord from turning syrupy. Benzoin and olibanum arrive early in the dry-down, adding a church-incense lift that shears the amber's weight and creates a translucent, powdery glow. Musks clean up the edges, turning the composition into a skin-hugging shimmer of warm wood, soft rose and vanken amber that lasts close but steady. Projection stays within arm's reach; the scent feels most comfortable under sweaters on cool autumn days or during quiet winter office.
Scent twins
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