Scarlet Poppy
Ambrette opens with that pear-skin musky shimmer the material is known for — soft, cool, slightly fruity without quite being a fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Powdery65
- Musky55
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ambrette
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Fig
By the editors · 2 min readAmbrette opens with that pear-skin musky shimmer the material is known for — soft, cool, slightly fruity without quite being a fruit. The first minutes feel like a clean breath rather than a perfume statement.
Heliotrope and iris hold the middle. Heliotrope adds a marzipan-leaning floral powder, while iris cools it back down with a grey, carrot-root quietness. Together they push the impression toward a warm-cool powdered floral that never quite tips sweet.
Tonka bean and fig close it out softly. The fig reads green and milky rather than fruit-jammy, and the tonka lends a faint hay-vanilla warmth at the very end. Stays close to skin throughout. A muted, daytime poppy in name only — pretty, restrained, four-season wearable.
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.
