Labdanum 18 Ciste 18 Le Labo 2006 Eau de Parfum
Labdanum dominates with a sticky, resinous amber quality that smells simultaneously leathery and honeyed, while castoreum and civet add a feral musk that clings to skin like warm fur.
The scent fingerprint
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.
- Animalic90
- Leather80
- Balsamic70
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Civet
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
- Hawthorn
- Patchouli
- Castoreum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLabdanum dominates with a sticky, resinous amber quality that smells simultaneously leathery and honeyed, while castoreum and civet add a feral musk that clings to skin like warm fur. Cinnamon folds into the resin to create a sweet-spicy swirl that recalls heated bakeware, and vanilla softens the edges without ever turning dessert-like. Hawthorn contributes a dry, almond-meal dustiness that keeps the composition from becoming syrupy, letting patchouli supply an earthy, slightly camphoric backbone in the later stages. On skin the opening blast is smoky-animalic, then it mellows into a soft, powdery amber glow that radiates for hours while maintaining the musky growl. Projection sits at arm’s length for most of the wear, making it ideal for cool autumn nights and intimate evening occasions.
Scent twins
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