Ombre Fumee
Orange and lemon open with brightness but step back quickly, making way for the more assertive heart.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and lemon open with brightness but step back quickly, making way for the more assertive heart. Black pepper drives the transition, adding bite that works alongside the cool, rooty character of vetiver. Iris sits in the middle, introducing a faint powdery dryness that keeps the composition from becoming too austere.
The base settles into tonka bean warming the vetiver and musk rounding off the sharper edges. Ambergris lends a subtle marine warmth rather than a heavy animalic quality. The smoky suggestion in the name feels more atmospheric than literal — vetiver carries that impression on its own.
Overall, this reads as a cool, earthy aromatic with spiced citrus at the front and a soft, ambery foundation. It suits cooler weather and quieter settings.
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.