Alcools
Birch opens dry and papery, releasing a faint creosote edge that immediately signals leather rather than lumber.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Smoky90
- Leather70
- Balsamic60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Styrax
- Tonka Bean
- Birch
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBirch opens dry and papery, releasing a faint creosote edge that immediately signals leather rather than lumber. Tonka bean arrives within minutes, folding its warm hay-almond sweetness around the birch tar so the smoke recedes into a soft, suede-like skin scent. Benzoin and styrax in the base double the vanillic tonka cushion while adding a quiet incense resonance that keeps the wear low and matte. The composition stays close, projecting no farther than a handshake and collapsing into a honeyed, tobacco-tinged lambswool finish that lasts the workday. Cool-weather casual wear, especially under a sweater where skin heat can reactivate the birch snap.
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.
