Empire Intense
Lavender opens cool and camphoric, sliced by bergamot’s tart sparkle and cardamom’s peppery heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and camphoric, sliced by bergamot’s tart sparkle and cardamom’s peppery heat. The heart trades citrus brightness for violet’s dusty purple hush, a softening veil that mutes spices and sets the stage for the base. Vetiver rises first, its smoke edged with rooty grass, then ambered resins swell while cashmeran’s blond woods add a clean, skin-warm musk. Over two hours the accord shifts from brisk aromatic to dry, woody-amber glow, projecting an arm’s-length aura that feels office-appropriate yet quietly sensual. Expect six-to-eight-hour longevity, ideal for cool spring mornings or air-conditioned summer workdays.
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.