Askr
Galbanum snaps open with bitter-green resin that feels like crushed leaves and sap frozen in Icelandic wind.
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.
- Green80
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Papyrus
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter-green resin that feels like crushed leaves and sap frozen in Icelandic wind. The heart stays vacant, letting that icy green hang while ambergris begins to seep up, lending briny, skin-warm lift that softens galbanum’s edge. Vetiver and papyrus arrive together, drying the blend into smoky, papery straw that crackles against cedar’s quiet pencil-shave wood. Over hours the marine salt of ambergris grows, turning the scent into cold beach air brushing weathered driftwood, never sweet, never loud. Projection stays arm-length, perfect for rainy spring walks or moody summer shoreline reading.
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.
