La Fin du Monde
La Fin Du Monde opens with a sweetened almond warmth — benzoin present early, before anything more ceremonial arrives.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Smoky75
- Amber65
- Tobacco60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLa Fin Du Monde opens with a sweetened almond warmth — benzoin present early, before anything more ceremonial arrives. Incense enters next, not as an austere ecclesiastical note but as a haze of resin and heat, accompanied by tobacco that reads as dried leaf rather than pipe smoke. Together they build toward something that should feel apocalyptic but lands as contemplative: the end of the world as a long, unhurried afternoon in a candlelit room.
The labdanum and amber base is deep and honeyed, musk keeping it from becoming too opaque. A sweetness runs through the whole composition — not gourmand exactly, more the sweetness of dried resinous material rather than sugar. La Fin Du Monde rewards patience; its character reveals itself slowly over several hours, and the final drydown is its best hour.
Scent twins
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