Radio Bombay
Radio Bombay opens with a gentle fizz of aldehydes and a whisper of cedar, immediately evoking the static hum of vintage transistor radios.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody85
- Coconut50
- Iris40
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Peach
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Coconut
By the editors · 2 min readRadio Bombay opens with a gentle fizz of aldehydes and a whisper of cedar, immediately evoking the static hum of vintage transistor radios. Within moments, the perfume settles into something warmer and more intimate—creamy sandalwood dusted with iris powder, a soft peach skin effect that feels like overheard music through apartment walls. There's coconut here, but restrained, more evocative of wood shavings and old furniture polish than suntan lotion.
The overall effect is nostalgic without sentimentality, like stumbling upon a stack of postcards from 1970s Bombay in a secondhand bookshop. The sandalwood remains constant throughout, given texture by musk and a faint salty sweetness from ambergris. It wears close to the skin, best suited to those who appreciate perfumes that conjure specific atmospheres—humid evenings, ceiling fans, the particular loneliness of radio voices in empty rooms.
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.
