By the Fireplace
By the Fireplace opens with a faint drift of orange blossom smoothed by pink pepper, but within minutes the guaiac wood asserts itself—resinous, slightly medicinal, with that characteristic band-aid sweetness that splits opinion.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla65
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Cashmeran
By the editors · 2 min readBy the Fireplace opens with a faint drift of orange blossom smoothed by pink pepper, but within minutes the guaiac wood asserts itself—resinous, slightly medicinal, with that characteristic band-aid sweetness that splits opinion. This isn't literal smoke so much as the memory of it: ash on wool, heat radiating from stone.
As it settles, vanilla and cashmeran soften the wood's sharper edges into something closer to burned sugar and warm skin. The effect is cozy without cloying, more ember than blaze. It stays close, linear after the first hour, projecting just enough to smell like you've been near a fire rather than wearing one as a costume.
This suits cold evenings and people who prefer their comfort scents slightly austere. The guaiac dominates enough that if you dislike medicinal woods, no amount of vanilla will rescue it for you.
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.
