Ambrette 9
Ambrette 9 opens quietly—ambrette seed's musky softness arrives almost as a whisper, rounded by a trace of iris that feels more tactile than floral.
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.
- Musky90
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAmbrette 9 opens quietly—ambrette seed's musky softness arrives almost as a whisper, rounded by a trace of iris that feels more tactile than floral. There's a subtle greenness underneath, like crushed stems, but it never turns sharp. The impression is of something close to skin, nearly weightless, with a powdery dryness that keeps it from feeling cloying.
As it settles, the texture becomes more pronounced than any individual note. It's warm without being sweet, clean without smelling soapy, vaguely botanical in a way that suggests seed pods and pale woods rather than petals. The musk remains central—gentle, slightly vegetal, never animalic.
This is fragrance as soft focus. It suits people who want presence without projection, something that reads as scent rather than perfume. Intimate, unobtrusive, deliberately understated.
Scent twins
In this family
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