Amber Intense
Cinnamon and black pepper create an intense warm-spicy opening with cumin adding a slightly animalic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Saffron
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and black pepper create an intense warm-spicy opening with cumin adding a slightly animalic edge. Orange and bergamot provide a citrus brightness that tempers the spice without sweetening the composition. Neroli and jasmine introduce a floral heart that blends with labdanum's resinous balsamic quality. Patchouli and styrax deepen the base with earthy and smoky accents beneath the amber core. Benzoin and musk add a soft sweet-musky dry-down that persists with moderate evolution. Strong projection and long longevity make this a fall and winter scent for evening or formal occasions in cool to cold conditions.
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.
