Paper
The opening lands quiet and dry, sandalwood paired with the airy radiance of Iso E Super, more texture than statement.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Powdery50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Iso E Super
- Amber
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening lands quiet and dry, sandalwood paired with the airy radiance of Iso E Super, more texture than statement. There is little citrus or sweetness to declare itself, just a soft clean wood from the first breath.
Amber and cedar fill the middle with a warm, slightly papery glow, the cedar giving a pencil-shaving cleanness rather than green sap. Vetiver appears in the base as a roasted, earthy thread that anchors the scent without darkening it.
Overall this reads as a transparent woody-amber, sketch rather than portrait, hovering close to skin. Suited to office and quieter contexts year-round.
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Scent twins
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