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Guerlain · Est. 2008

Elixir Charnel Oriental Brulant

Oriental Brûlant distills Christine Nagel and Sylvaine Delacourte's Elixir Charnel concept to its essence: tangerine over almond over vanilla-styrax-tonka — five notes, no detours.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2008
Statusenriched
2008 · Fragrance
van·ton·ora·amb
Rating
4.3
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 7 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.

  • Vanilla
    65
  • Tonka
    55
  • Orange
    40
  • Amber
    35
  • Caramel
    35

By the editors · 2 min readOriental Brûlant distills Christine Nagel and Sylvaine Delacourte's Elixir Charnel concept to its essence: tangerine over almond over vanilla-styrax-tonka — five notes, no detours. The tangerine opening is brief and bright before almond takes the heart, warm and slightly bitter, somewhere between marzipan and amaretto. Styrax and tonka bean in the base add a soft resinous smokiness that prevents the sweetness from becoming cloying.

Now discontinued, it belongs to a category of fragrances that trusted simplicity — the kind that either disappears on skin or becomes intimately yours. Those who found it tend to find nothing else quite like it.

Filed: GuerlainSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap