Light My Fire
Tonka bean dominates the opening, pouring sweet almond and hay-like coumarin over smoldering birch tar that crackles with tobacco-leather intensity.
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.
- Smoky80
- Vanilla60
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Birch
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean dominates the opening, pouring sweet almond and hay-like coumarin over smoldering birch tar that crackles with tobacco-leather intensity. Heliotrope arrives quickly, dusting the smoke with powdered marzipan and pulling the composition toward a soft, almost milky heart where vetiver’s rooty dryness keeps the sweetness from cloying. Vanilla blooms in the base, not as dessert but as a dark, boozy rum-vanilla that merges with patchouli’s chocolate earth, extending the smoky-balsamic trail for hours. The scent clings close yet persists, projecting a skin-hugging ember perfect for cool fall nights or a low-lit jazz bar. Complexity is moderate: the birch–tonka accord stays center stage while the heliotrope–vanilla duet slowly thickens the air.
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.
