Gourmand Bakhoor
Smoke and caramel arrive simultaneously at the opening — a striking pairing where the acrid and the sweet collide rather than blend.
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.
- Lactonic50
- Sweet50
- Amber50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Smoke
- Caramel
- Leather
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke and caramel arrive simultaneously at the opening — a striking pairing where the acrid and the sweet collide rather than blend. The effect is immediate and a little confrontational, like burnt sugar on a campfire.
Leather enters the heart alongside more caramel, adding an animalic dryness that cuts through the sweetness. There's no soft base listed to smooth the edges, so the composition stays in this tense, smoky-gourmand register throughout.
With only four notes and no resolving base, this reads as intentionally stark. It wears better on skin than in the air — the smoke tames as it settles, and the caramel-leather contrast becomes more comfortable over time.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
