Luce
Birch tar and leather open hot, sealing the wearer's skin in a campfire-smoke jacket whose edges already carry sweet, salty ambergris.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather90
- Smoky70
- Tobacco60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Birch
- Sandalwood
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBirch tar and leather open hot, sealing the wearer's skin in a campfire-smoke jacket whose edges already carry sweet, salty ambergris. Sandalwood heartwood arrives quickly, its creamy grain softening the tar while tobacco leaf folds in a dry, brown-sugar hay that keeps the smoke from turning harsh. Patchouli adds cool, loamy soil under the logs, letting the leather breathe rather than choke. Over two hours the birch embers cool, letting benzoin pour a matte amber varnish that fuses with the wood and quiets the hides; vanilla stays background, offering only a bare sweetness that lengthens the resinous glow. Projection drops to arm's-length after the third hour, leaving a calm, waxed-saddle skin perfect for cool autumn nights or a low-lit jazz bar.
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.
