Oliban
A small sweet-amber composition built from tonka bean, ambergris, and caramel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readA small sweet-amber composition built from tonka bean, ambergris, and caramel. Ambergris here reads as it usually does — warm, slightly salty-marine, with an animal undertone that keeps the sweetness from going dessert. Caramel adds an unambiguous gourmand thread, more burnt-sugar than vanilla.
Tonka closes the structure with a hay-like, almond-vanilla sweetness that integrates the other two into a single warm presence. The composition stays close to skin and reads more as a comfort scent than a complex one — a quiet, slightly retro gourmand-amber that lives well on the wrist in cold weather.
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.
