Forty Thieves
Opens with a smoky-bright contradiction: petitgrain and bergamot's green citrus snap laid against frankincense smoke and pink pepper's dry tingle.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Honey85
- Smoky60
- Amber55
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Orange Blossom
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a smoky-bright contradiction: petitgrain and bergamot's green citrus snap laid against frankincense smoke and pink pepper's dry tingle. The opening reads as church incense lifted by a window cracked open to a citrus grove.
The heart is where the construction reveals its richness. Labdanum pours dark resinous warmth, orange blossom adds honeyed white-floral lift, papyrus contributes a dry papery-grassy character, and rose threads through the middle. Honey gives the entire bouquet a sticky golden cushion that ties the disparate elements together.
The drydown lands on sandalwood, amber, and vanilla — a creamy-resinous oriental base where honey continues to glow. Smoky, sweet, slightly leathery, and built around the kind of golden-warm complexity that suits evening wear in cool weather.
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.
