Fir Balsam
A pink-pepper sparkle and cool cardamom open against a tart, slightly fruited rose, the kind of opening that reads more couture than camping despite the name on the bottle.
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.
- Amber70
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Patchouli
- May Rose
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readA pink-pepper sparkle and cool cardamom open against a tart, slightly fruited rose, the kind of opening that reads more couture than camping despite the name on the bottle.
The heart is rose-and-patchouli — not the dense Mitsouko-style chypre, but something softer and more transparent, the patchouli lifted of its earth. As it dries down, vanilla and benzoin pool around labdanum, building a warm balsamic amber that does most of the wear.
The arc is short and lush: peppery floral lift, then a long sit in honeyed resin. It works through cool weather and reads as quietly grown-up rather than precious or showy.
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.
