Samsara Extrait
Samsara Extrait is the concentration that settles the argument: Jean-Paul Guerlain's 1989 sandalwood-jasmine opus in its fullest, most unhurried form.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Woody65
- Floral60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readSamsara Extrait is the concentration that settles the argument: Jean-Paul Guerlain's 1989 sandalwood-jasmine opus in its fullest, most unhurried form. Ylang-ylang and peach open the extrait with a warm, almost overripe richness before the floral heart unfolds — orris, jasmine, iris, violet, narcissus, and rose layered with the precision of a couturier, each identifiable but inseparable from the whole.
The base is pure Guerlain architecture: tonka, Mysore sandalwood, amber, and vanilla building a foundation of sustained warmth that carries for hours. Complexity increases with wear rather than fading into musk. A deliberate, timeless composition that rewards patience and occasion. Not for the tentative.
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.
