Issara
A meditative composition that arrives without much fanfare — no real top, just a cool herbal hush of clary sage threaded with tonka, the sage slightly hay-bitter, the tonka starting a quiet almond-vanilla undercurrent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy95
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Green Notes
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readA meditative composition that arrives without much fanfare — no real top, just a cool herbal hush of clary sage threaded with tonka, the sage slightly hay-bitter, the tonka starting a quiet almond-vanilla undercurrent.
The heart stays soft: clary sage continues, with the tonka thickening into a powdered sweetness that suggests dried grass and old paper rather than dessert. There is an immediate sense of quiet, of a still room with the windows open onto damp earth.
The base is the centre of gravity: a thick oakmoss carpet under ambergris and musk, salty-mineral, slightly animalic, faintly briny. Overall the impression is a contemplative, mossy almost-skin composition — herbal at the start, mossy-ambered through, subtle in projection — atmospheric and grown-up.
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.
