Orca
Benzoin opens with a resinous, toffee-like sweetness that immediately warms the skin, setting a thick amber tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Honey70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Honey
- Ambergris
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBenzoin opens with a resinous, toffee-like sweetness that immediately warms the skin, setting a thick amber tone. The heart introduces honey, its waxy pollen richness amplifying the benzoin’s caramel edge while ambergris begins to exhale a salty, skin-like breath beneath. Labdanum deepens the base, adding a leathery, incense-dark amber that slowly replaces the honey’s brightness with a low-tide musk. Wear stays close, projecting no farther than forearm distance, yet the resinous film lingers for eight hours, growing drier and more mineral. Cool evenings and layered knits let the salty ambergris glow; summer heat turns the accord syrupy and dense.
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.




