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The opening is a low-lit amber glow threaded with saffron's leathery sweetness and a pulse of orange blossom that keeps the resin from going too solemn.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Oakmoss85
- Labdanum80
- Amber75
- Tonka60
- Vanilla50
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a low-lit amber glow threaded with saffron's leathery sweetness and a pulse of orange blossom that keeps the resin from going too solemn. Within minutes, oakmoss and labdanum form the real spine—mossy, almost sticky, with the bergamot turning sharp citrus into something more herbal and grounded. This is not a bright chypre but a shadowed one, constructed on resins rather than fresh contrasts.
The drydown settles into a cocoon of tonka, vanilla, and vetiver, smoky cedar lending structure while patchouli and clary sage add a faintly medicinal coolness. It doesn't flirt. The effect is intimate, enveloping, slightly gothic—imagine soft knitwear worn after dark in a room lit only by streetlamps. Suited to anyone drawn to warmth without obvious sweetness, or oakmoss chypres rewritten in a lower, quieter register.
