Eau des Merveilles 10th Anniversary Edition
Ambergris opens with a briny marine snap shot through with mineral iodine, instantly salty and slightly animalic.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Mossy80
- Woody70
- Marine60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Pink Pepper
- Violet
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris opens with a briny marine snap shot through with mineral iodine, instantly salty and slightly animalic. Pink pepper rushes in next, its rosy sparkle lifting the ambergris while violet leaf adds a cool green iron edge that keeps the heart airy rather than sweet. As the top quiets, oakmoss spreads a damp forest-floor bitterness that anchors the composition in cool shade, while vetiver sharpens the profile with raw root smoke and cedar supplies clean dry wood for structure. The dry-down stays moss-forward, the ambergris never turning creamy but remaining crystalline and tide-pool fresh for hours. Sillage sits at arm’s length, projecting just enough to notice yet polite for office wear, thriving best in cool spring or fall days when humidity can coax the saltier facets forward.
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.