Le 68 Guerlain 2013 Eau de Parfum
Leather dominates the opening, smooth and slightly smoky, pressed against the almond-like sweetness of heliotrope that softens its grain.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather80
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Frankincense
- Benzoin
- Heliotrope
- Spices
By the editors · 2 min readLeather dominates the opening, smooth and slightly smoky, pressed against the almond-like sweetness of heliotrope that softens its grain. Within minutes benzoin and frankincense melt in, creating a resinous ambered backdrop that warms the leather while letting the tonka bean inject a faint hay-coumarin lift. The spice layer stays low, more clove-cinnamon dust than heat, weaving through the balsams to keep the accord from turning syrupy. As skin heat rises the leather relaxes into a suede skin scent, the heliotrope gradually folding into the vanillic tonka so that only a powdered almond residue flickers. Projection remains courteous, sending a discreet leathery haze that lingers through a workday before settling into shirt-close sweetness. Cool autumn days and business-casual settings suit its restrained opulence best.
Scent twins
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