Diplomat de Signature
Labdanum and benzoin fuse into a resinous, slightly animalic glow that feels more like a base than a top, immediately wrapping the skin in a honeyed amber haze.
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.
- Leather90
- Tobacco85
- Amber70
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Ambergris
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLabdanum and benzoin fuse into a resinous, slightly animalic glow that feels more like a base than a top, immediately wrapping the skin in a honeyed amber haze. Within minutes, the heart arrives: stiff, saddle-grade leather pressed against dry, blond tobacco leaf, the two notes trading tannic dryness and soft smokiness so seamlessly that it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. As the leather relaxes, cedar emerges, shaving off the tobacco’s rough edges while letting the ambergris salt the accord with a breezy, skin-warmed mineral sheen. Vanilla never turns dessert-like; instead it quietly rounds the amber, keeping the structure supple for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it an effortless fit for cool autumn offices or low-lit winter bars when you want presence without announcement.
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.




