Ambre Intense
There is no bright opening here — the composition starts already deep, with incense and patchouli establishing a resinous, slightly smoky character from the first moments.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky70
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readThere is no bright opening here — the composition starts already deep, with incense and patchouli establishing a resinous, slightly smoky character from the first moments. Sandalwood sits beneath these, adding a dry creaminess that prevents the incense from reading as purely austere.
Amber and opoponax in the base slowly deepen the resinous core. Opoponax in particular gives a balsamic sweetness distinct from simple amber — richer and more honeyed, with a faint herbal edge.
The overall impression is one of controlled density: warm, smooth, and persistent. The interplay between incense smoke and balsamic sweetness keeps the composition from feeling static. Well-suited to cold weather and evening use when its projection sits comfortably in the air.
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.