Ambre Vie
Mimosa opens with a pollen-dusted almond sweetness that feels airy rather than sugary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Tobacco80
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Mimosa
- Frankincense
- Sandalwood
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readMimosa opens with a pollen-dusted almond sweetness that feels airy rather than sugary. Incense arrives within minutes, turning the fluffy yellow bloom into a resinous haze that clings to the skin’s warmth. The smoke slowly melts into sandalwood’s creamy, blond wood, while dry tobacco leaf adds a papery rasp that keeps the base from sliding into dessert territory. Over four hours the tobacco intensifies, trading smoke for a honeyed leather nuance that sits close to the body. Projection stays polite, creating a private amber-tinged skin halo perfect for cool autumn offices or intimate cafés.
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.
