Bois Datchaï
Sandalwood, leather, and guaiac wood form the spine immediately, the guaiac adding its smoky, slightly tarry edge that meets leather's animalic warmth.
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.
- Leather80
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Guaiac Wood
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood, leather, and guaiac wood form the spine immediately, the guaiac adding its smoky, slightly tarry edge that meets leather's animalic warmth. There's no top to speak of — the composition opens already in its base.
Ylang-ylang and rose drift through the wood, the ylang creamy and slightly banana-tropical, the rose more textural than floral, while cardamom contributes a cool aromatic lift that keeps the smoke from overwhelming. The leather quality dominates, polished and slightly resinous, with the floral accents softening rather than dominating. Texture is dense, projection moderate-to-strong, sillage steady.
Overall a smoky-woody leather with floral accents — assertive without being aggressive. Suited to cool evenings, formal wear, contexts where dark woods read as appropriate.
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.
