Insomnia
Leather and tobacco open simultaneously, the former carrying a cured-hide tannic edge while the latter adds a honeyed duskiness that mutes lemon's initial brightness within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Tobacco90
- Leather80
- Smoky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Tobacco
- Lemon
- Cypriol
- Patchouli
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLeather and tobacco open simultaneously, the former carrying a cured-hide tannic edge while the latter adds a honeyed duskiness that mutes lemon's initial brightness within minutes. Cypriol introduces a dry, vetiver-like smokiness that steers the blend away from sweet pipe territory into something more austere; patchouli reinforces this earthiness, darkening the heart without adding sweetness. Amber in the base acts less as a warm blanket and more as a low, glowing ember that sustains the tobacco's hay-like nuance well into dry-down while keeping leather supple rather than harsh. Projection stays within arm's length for six hours, then collapses to skin-level whisper that still releases occasional leather-tobacco curls when warmed. Cool fall evenings, a tweed jacket, and low lighting match the scent's muted volume and slightly somber character.
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.
