Lesquendieu Le Parfum
Birch tar opens with a sharp, leathery smoke that immediately blankets the citrus sparkle of bergamot, creating a dark campfire-over-ice accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBirch tar opens with a sharp, leathery smoke that immediately blankets the citrus sparkle of bergamot, creating a dark campfire-over-ice accord. The heart thickens as tonka bean folds in a warm, hay-like sweetness that tames the birch’s tarry edges while jasmine adds a faintly indolic floral glimmer, all glued together by labdanum’s resinous amber glow. Over hours the smoke recedes, letting cedar’s dry pencil-shavings wood push forward against a creamy vanilla-amber base that feels soft, slightly powdered, and surprisingly skin-close. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the wearing, making it workable for office-hours or evening dates when cooler weather lets the birch smolder without choking a room. Complexity is moderate: the tar-citrus tension resolves quickly, leaving a smooth, sweet-woody skin scent that lingers well past midnight.
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.
