Ambre Doré
Clary sage and styrax open with an herbal-resinous contrast — the sage is cool and slightly camphor-edged, while styrax pulls immediately toward warmth and smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Styrax
- Clary Sage
- Oud
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readClary sage and styrax open with an herbal-resinous contrast — the sage is cool and slightly camphor-edged, while styrax pulls immediately toward warmth and smoke. Saffron threads through both, adding a metallic-honeyed undercurrent.
Oud, ambergris, and amber form a rich middle ground that leans neither purely sweet nor purely medicinal. The saffron deepens here, binding the resin and wood layers together with a distinctive mineral weight.
Sandalwood and vetiver anchor the dry-down — creamy versus earthy — with myrrh adding a dry, faintly bitter finish. The overall composition is dense, resinous, and slow to evolve.
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.
