Bois d'Ambre
Bergamot opens cleanly before clary sage's herbal-aromatic warmth steps in, lending the perfume a slightly soapy-vintage cologne register.
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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Herbal45
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Plum
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly before clary sage's herbal-aromatic warmth steps in, lending the perfume a slightly soapy-vintage cologne register. The composition keeps things spare in the heart — no floral or fruity distractions, just sage giving way to amber.
The base centers on amber alone, with tonka, plum, and bergamot threading through the general structure. The amber reads classical — vanilla and benzoin built rather than literal — slightly sweet, slightly resinous. Suited to fall and winter, casual and evening wear, when the warm-amber character can settle slowly. Quietly elegant; designed for restraint, not announcement.
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.
