Ambre Sauvage Absolu 2020
Lavender opens cool and slightly camphoraceous, immediately setting a crisp aromatic frame that carries through the wear.
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.
- Lavender90
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Vanilla
- Iris
- Patchouli
- Styrax
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and slightly camphoraceous, immediately setting a crisp aromatic frame that carries through the wear. Vanilla arrives early, softening the edges with a creamy, almost marshmallow roundness while iris contributes a dry, chalky powder that keeps the sweetness in check. Patchouli and styrax drive the dry-down: the patchouli delivers a clean, leaf-dust earth tone, and styrax adds a quiet leathery resin that stretches the amber accord into something darker and more resinous than sugary. On skin the scent stays close, projecting no farther than arm’s length for roughly six hours, then folding into a faint lavender-vanilla skin. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual offices fit its polite presence 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.
