Myrrhe Ardente
Myrrhe Ardente opens with a resinous warmth that's immediate and enveloping—benzoin and tonka bean create a sweet, balsamic haze rather than discrete notes.
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.
- Sweet55
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Myrrh
- Benzoin
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readMyrrhe Ardente opens with a resinous warmth that's immediate and enveloping—benzoin and tonka bean create a sweet, balsamic haze rather than discrete notes. There's an almost edible quality at first, like burnt caramel or the sticky interior of a vanilla pod left too long over flame.
The guaiac and vetiver emerge gradually, tempering the sweetness with dry, smoky wood. The myrrh itself (though not listed, presumably in the base) lends an austere, medicinal edge that keeps the composition from tipping into dessert territory. It smells less like incense in a cathedral and more like the wooden pews themselves—ancient, polished, faintly scorched.
This is a contemplative fragrance, best suited to cooler weather and quiet evenings. It stays close to the skin but projects a distinct aura of warmth. Those who find most amber scents too heavy or too sweet may appreciate its restrained intensity.
Scent twins
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