Bois d'Ombrie
Bois d'Ombrie opens with an emphatically unusual set of top notes: cognac and whiskey give boozy, fermented warmth; carrot contributes a woody, earthy quality; calamus a reedy sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather70
- Smoky70
- Tobacco60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cognac
- Carrot
- Calamus
- Whiskey
- Leather
- Copahu Balm
- Orris Root
By the editors · 2 min readBois d'Ombrie opens with an emphatically unusual set of top notes: cognac and whiskey give boozy, fermented warmth; carrot contributes a woody, earthy quality; calamus a reedy sweetness. The combination is challenging at the outset — rough, a little rough-hewn, suggesting what follows.
Leather and orris root define the heart, the leather dominant and dry, orris contributing quiet powder. Copahu balm adds a subtle South American resinousness that bridges heart to base.
The base commits fully to its darkness: incense, myrrh, opoponax, vetiver, tobacco, and patchouli in concert — six notes, deep and tenacious. It's the smell of old smoke and dark wood and something faintly sacred. A niche fragrance that earns the adjective.
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.
