Into The Void
There's no traditional opening — the perfume materialises in the air as a dry, smoky woods chord, with guaiac's tarry-sweet pungency leading.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambroxan
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readThere's no traditional opening — the perfume materialises in the air as a dry, smoky woods chord, with guaiac's tarry-sweet pungency leading. Tonka adds a hayed warmth around it, hinting at a quiet sweetness without ever blooming.
The development is patient: cedar's pencil-shaving cleanness pushes against patchouli's damp earth, papyrus contributes a dry papery rasp, and ambroxan radiates a salty mineral hum that gives the whole thing breathing room. There's a faint balsamic resin curl, almost incense-adjacent, threaded through the base.
Overall character: a stripped-back, almost monolithic woody — minimalist and architectural rather than narrative. Projection feels broad despite its quietness, hovering close like dry smoke without ever settling.
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.
