Un Air d’Arabie Amber
Virginia cedar opens dry and pencil-sharp, immediately dusted with frankincense that turns the wood smoldering rather than bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Virginia Cedar
- Incense
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVirginia cedar opens dry and pencil-sharp, immediately dusted with frankincense that turns the wood smoldering rather than bright. The heart thickens as benzoin pours molten honey over patchouli’s earthy leaf, creating a tarry amber accord that feels half-luminous, half-charred. Amber resin and musk anchor the base, stretching the smoky-balsamic haze into a low, leathery glow that hovers just above skin for hours. Projection stays reserved, a skin-radius curl of incense perfect for cool evenings or layered under wool. Composition is linear once the sweet benzoin patchouli fusion sets, yet the cedar ember keeps re-sparking whenever body heat rises.
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.
