Camelia
A reconstructed camellia.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Amber85
- Vanilla80
- Rose30
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA reconstructed camellia. The flower itself has little perceptible scent, so the perfumer's job is to invent one — and here that invention leans warm and powdered rather than dewy.
A single rose accent opens, brief and quiet, before tonka's almond-hay sweetness takes over. The transition is fast; this is a linear soft-floral, not a multi-act composition, and the rose is more a salutation than a heart.
The drydown does most of the work: benzoin, amber, vanilla and Atlas cedar weave a creamy resin-wood that feels like an interior more than a garden. Close-to-skin, low-effort, gently gourmand-adjacent. Reads like a comfort scent more than a statement one.
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.