Dreaming With Ghosts
Leather opens with a robust, slightly animalic character that feels both rugged and refined.
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.
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- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Peony
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLeather opens with a robust, slightly animalic character that feels both rugged and refined. Peony adds a soft floral counterpoint that tempers the leather's intensity with a fresh powdery quality. Vetiver in the base introduces an earthy green depth that grounds the composition with a dry woody texture. Vanilla provides a subtle sweet creaminess that smooths the transition into the dry-down. The scent evolves from bold leather to a softer vanillic-woody finish over several hours. Projection is strong initially but settles to moderate sillage, with good longevity for fall and winter evening wear in cool to cold conditions.
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Scent twins
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