Ambre Secret
Rose opens with a soft, jammy sweetness that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, aromatic edge, creating a floral-herbal counterpoint rather than a sugar bomb.
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.
- Rose70
- Balsamic60
- Lavender60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Lavender
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readRose opens with a soft, jammy sweetness that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, aromatic edge, creating a floral-herbal counterpoint rather than a sugar bomb. Benzoin and vanilla arrive together, thickening the heart with a resinous, almost caramel-like amber that muffles the florals and pushes the scent toward a warm, powdery skin. Opoponax adds a subtle incense smokiness underneath, keeping the vanilla from turning dessert-like. As the base settles, vetiver sharpens the composition with a dry, grassy bite, while patchouli contributes an earthy, dark-chocolate depth that prevents the amber from becoming flat. Cedar stays quiet, lending a clean wood frame that lets the resins glow. Projection stays moderate, casting a cozy, book-lined radius for about six hours; it feels most natural in cool fall evenings or layered under a scarf in winter.
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.
