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Eau des Baux

Eau des Baux opens with a dry, resinous warmth—pink pepper's gentle bite softened by cardamom's green-woody sweetness.

ConcentrationFragrance
Formasculine
Released2006
Statusenriched
2006 · Fragrance
inc·ton·van·car
Rating
4.4
3.7k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 7 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.

  • Incense
    95
  • Tonka
    75
  • Vanilla
    65
  • Cardamom
    45
  • Black Pepper
    35

By the editors · 2 min readEau des Baux opens with a dry, resinous warmth—pink pepper's gentle bite softened by cardamom's green-woody sweetness. The spices never shout; they hover like dust motes in slanted light, making way for a central pillar of incense that feels more monastery stone than smoldering censer.

As it settles, tonka and vanilla arrive not as gourmand sweetness but as rounded balm, smoothing the incense's austere edges without erasing them. The result is a comforting skin scent that retains a contemplative quality, never tipping into full dessert territory.

This suits those who want vanilla's embrace without its sugar rush—a fragrance that evokes Provençal chapels and winter wool rather than pastry shops. Masculine-leaning but unguarded, it wears close and ages gracefully through the day.

Filed: L'Occitane en ProvenceSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap