Absinthe
Lavender opens cleanly and almost solitary — no citrus, no aromatic chord around it — which gives the perfume an unusually plain front door.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Amber65
- Lavender55
- Leather55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Heliotrope
- Amberwood
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cleanly and almost solitary — no citrus, no aromatic chord around it — which gives the perfume an unusually plain front door.
The heart is heliotrope, soft and almond-marzipan, doing the work of a single anchor; with no transitional florals around it the lavender simply hands off.
The base is where the composition turns: amberwood and amber together build a warm, slightly synthetic resin, vetiver lends a dry mineral edge, and a leather note pulls it all toward smoke. The arc is unusual — sparse top, floral dot in the middle, dense leathery-amber close. It reads more sculpted than narrative, an exercise in a few materials rather than a perfume that develops.
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.
