Holiday Première L'Étoile Golden
Smoke dominates the opening, a dry wood-fire haze that immediately swallows the orange’s zest and turns it into glowing embers.
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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Smoke
- Orange
- Hazelnut
- Guaiac Wood
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke dominates the opening, a dry wood-fire haze that immediately swallows the orange’s zest and turns it into glowing embers. Hazelnut arrives next, adding a toasted, oily richness that softens the ash while pushing the composition toward a bittersweet mocha effect. In the base, guaiac and cedar lay down splintered barrel staves, their resinous edges lacquered by amber so the scent stays warm rather than acrid. Over hours the nuts recede and the woods char further, leaving a persistent campfire-caramel skin film. Sillage projects an arm-length radius for four to five hours, then settles into a closer smolder. Cool autumn nights and outdoor evening events feel like natural habitat; heat would flatten the hazelnut and exaggerate the smoke.
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.
