IV-IV White Whale
Ambergris carries the first breath, its briny mineral edge slicing through a cool violet petal core that quickly warms on skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Violet70
- Marine60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ambergris
- Violet
- Labdanum
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAmbergris carries the first breath, its briny mineral edge slicing through a cool violet petal core that quickly warms on skin. The two heart materials fuse into a muted marine-iris accord: salt-dusted violet that feels damp rather than sweet, while a quiet cedar hum underneath keeps the structure angular. Labdanum emerges late, stretching resinous amber over the cooled violet until the scent reads like driftwood washed in low-tide silt. Projection stays close, radiating only a forearm’s length for six hours, yet the salty skin-hug makes it noticeable in still air. Cool seaside spring mornings or rainy city evenings fit its subdued aquatic-wooden character.
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.
