Felt
Leather presents immediately, a supple and slightly smoky hide that dominates the opening with a bold, tactile presence.
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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Incense
- Olibanum
- Benzoin
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLeather presents immediately, a supple and slightly smoky hide that dominates the opening with a bold, tactile presence. Incense rises quickly, weaving a dry, churchy aromatic smoke through the leather and lending a meditative quality to the heart. A complex base of opoponax, benzoin, and olibanum provides a balsamic, resinous depth, while cardamom and nutmeg add a soft, warm-spicy undertone that prevents the composition from becoming too austere. Rose and musk linger in the far dry-down, offering a faint floral sweetness and skin-like warmth to the otherwise serious, smoky-leather character. Projection is strong initially but becomes more intimate over time, lasting well over twelve hours for evening or formal cool-weather occasions.
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.
