Amber
Bergamot flashes first, a quick citrus spark that yanks jasmine and ylang-ylang into daylight, the white petals already edged with banana-like creaminess.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Amberwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a quick citrus spark that yanks jasmine and ylang-ylang into daylight, the white petals already edged with banana-like creaminess. Jasmine doubles down in the heart, now honeyed and slightly indolic, welded to labdanum’s molten resin so the floral note feels syrupy rather than airy. Amberwood arrives early, its sharp, almost sawdusty timber cutting the sweetness while heliotrope dusts the mix with marzipan powder that softens the edges without turning edible. Opoponax smolders underneath, lending a myrrh-like, softly bitter smoke that keeps the amber accord from becoming plush; instead it stays dry, woody, faintly leathery. Wear it leans unisex, projecting quietly for six hours and settling into a skin-print of blond wood, faint white flowers, and cooled incense. Cool evenings and smart-casual offices fit its restrained radiance best.
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.
