Ambre Intense
Ambre Intense opens with saffron and rose — the saffron sharp and metallic, the rose softer and warmer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAmbre Intense opens with saffron and rose — the saffron sharp and metallic, the rose softer and warmer. The two notes establish an oriental floral opening.
Sandalwood, cedar, and patchouli in the heart build a woody-earthy structure. The patchouli adds dark depth; cedar is dry and linear; sandalwood provides creaminess. The transition from the floral-spiced top to this earthy middle is the composition's key arc.
White musk, labdanum, amber, and vanilla in the base produce a warm, resinous, golden drydown. Labdanum is richly honeyed-animalic; amber deepens and extends. The overall effect is a warm, deep amber-oriental — amber in the deepest sense, layered and persistent.
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.
