Emeraude
Emeraude, released in 1921, is one of the founding documents of the oriental fragrance family.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Vanilla60
- Amber60
- Floral60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Orange
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Rosewood
By the editors · 2 min readEmeraude, released in 1921, is one of the founding documents of the oriental fragrance family. The citrus opening — orange, lemon, bergamot — is bright and brief, a conventional prelude to the richly complex heart. Jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose create a dense floral core that is decidedly pre-modern in its fullness, the kind of construction that doesn't apologize for its weight.
The base is the real achievement: sandalwood, benzoin, opoponax, amber, vanilla, and patchouli create a resinous accord of remarkable depth for its era — sweet and smoky in equal measure. To wear it now is to understand what fragrance was reaching for before synthetic musks made everything lighter.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
