Ashes
A solitary clove opens warm and medicinal, almost dental — there's no citrus, no aromatic, just the spicy single subject stating itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
- Atlas Cedar
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA solitary clove opens warm and medicinal, almost dental — there's no citrus, no aromatic, just the spicy single subject stating itself.
The heart pivots to a wood quartet: guaiac, atlas cedar, virginia cedar, patchouli. The cedars do most of the talking, their dryness adding up to something more like sawmill floor than forest, with patchouli rooting it.
The base is incense and frankincense over amber and musk — smoke dragged through resin until it reads as cooled embers rather than active fire. The arc is monolithic: spicy spark, dry woods, smoky resins. It reads as evening-coded and meditative, dense without being heavy, and is unforgiving of warm 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.
