Islay
Opens with smoke, galbanum and bergamot in an unusual combination: the smoke immediate and slightly peaty, the galbanum sharply green, the bergamot keeping the entry from going austere.
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.
- Smoky65
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Smoke
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Amber
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with smoke, galbanum and bergamot in an unusual combination: the smoke immediate and slightly peaty, the galbanum sharply green, the bergamot keeping the entry from going austere. The whisky reference is signalled from the first minute.
In the heart, orris, amber, cedar, patchouli and iris build a powdery-earthy-woody centre. Iris and orris together lend a cold, rooty character, while amber and patchouli warm the edges. The smoky thread from the top carries through.
The base of sandalwood, vanilla and musk softens the drydown into a creamier, slightly sweet wood finish without erasing the smoke. Projection is moderate and the trail reads as a dry smoky-iris-wood composition with strong longevity.
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.
