Private Session
Private Session opens with a tart, almost medicinal brightness—raspberry soured by lemon and lifted by anise's cool licorice edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Amber80
- Vanilla70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Lemon
- Anise
- Myrrh
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPrivate Session opens with a tart, almost medicinal brightness—raspberry soured by lemon and lifted by anise's cool licorice edge. It's an unexpected entrance, sharper than the name suggests, like walking into a candlelit room and catching the scent of fruit cordial left uncorked beside an apothecary jar.
The myrrh soon emerges, resinous and slightly smoky, anchoring the initial sweetness into something more contemplative. It shifts the mood from bright to introspective, a transition that feels deliberate rather than abrupt.
In its base, benzoin and vanilla soften the composition into a warm, balsamic haze, while cedar adds a whisper of dry wood underneath. The result is an amber-leaning fragrance that balances gourmand sweetness with a resinous, almost incense-like quality. It suits quiet evenings and prefers intimacy to projection—hence the name, presumably—though it lingers closer to the skin than truly vanishing.
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.
