Sleeping with Ghosts
With no top notes to ease the entry, this opens almost immediately on leather — dry, slightly smoky, and direct.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Peony
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top notes to ease the entry, this opens almost immediately on leather — dry, slightly smoky, and direct. Peony provides a counterpoint, adding a light, watery floral quality that softens the leather without domesticating it. The pairing is unusual and creates a certain tension in the opening.
Vetiver arrives in the dry-down, adding an earthy, rooty bitterness that darkens the leather further. Vanilla works underneath as a quiet sweetener, preventing the composition from reading as purely austere.
The overall character is dark and animalic-leaning, built around raw leather with herbal-earthy support. The sparse pyramid limits certainty, but neighbours consistently point toward leather-forward constructions with sweet balsamic underpinning.
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.
