Ambre Chromatique
Incense smoke opens with a sharp pink pepper bite — the contrast is immediate, dry resin against rosy heat.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Pink Pepper
- Osmanthus
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readIncense smoke opens with a sharp pink pepper bite — the contrast is immediate, dry resin against rosy heat. Within minutes osmanthus arrives in the heart, its apricot-leather quality adding a fruity warmth that softens the smoke without sweetening it.
The heart is short and the base does the structural work: benzoin layered into amber, the two reading as glowing resin, with cinnamon's faint spicy hum threading through. The composition is plush but not heavy, the smoke from the top lingering as a grey-warm halo around the amber center. Texture stays smooth and slightly creamy. Sillage is moderate, lifespan generous.
Overall a refined, resinous amber with smoke and stone-fruit shading. Cool-weather evening. Sits close after the first hour but lasts well into the next day.
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.
