Arabian Amber
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Black Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes. Sandalwood arrives early, creamy and dry, threaded with black pepper's prickly heat and ylang-ylang's faint banana sweetness; cedar keeps the wood axis lean while nutmeg dusts everything in soft warmth. The base thickens: olibanum lifts resinous incense smoke, opoponax adds a honeyed myrrh glow, and patchouli lays down an earthy chocolate-brown blanket that swallows the earlier woods. On skin the scent darkens steadily, the spices sinking into the balsamic resin until only a muted amber-wood ember remains. Projection stays arm-length for four hours, then hovers closer, making it office-safe yet evening-appropriate. Cool fall nights and air-conditioned interiors let the incense core smolder longest.
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.