Ambre Sauvage
Amber and patchouli announce themselves immediately — earthy, resinous, and slightly dark.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readAmber and patchouli announce themselves immediately — earthy, resinous, and slightly dark. There is real density in the opening, with the patchouli sitting in an earthy rather than sweet register.
Lavender and pink pepper soften the mid-stage considerably. The lavender is aromatic and slightly herbal rather than soapy, while pink pepper brings a dry, muted spice that keeps the floral from becoming too domestic. Together they create a quiet tension against the heavier base.
Iris settles the entire composition into a cool, powdery depth — violet-adjacent but drier. The overall impression is a subdued, contemplative fragrance: earthy and purple-hued, with the amber providing warmth rather than sweetness underneath.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
