L'Air de Rien
L'Air de Rien is Miller Harris's most famous composition — a controversial, deliberately animalic scent commissioned by Jane Birkin and built around what amounts to the warm, human smell of hair and skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Amber75
- Patchouli65
- Vanilla50
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Oakmoss
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readL'Air de Rien is Miller Harris's most famous composition — a controversial, deliberately animalic scent commissioned by Jane Birkin and built around what amounts to the warm, human smell of hair and skin. The opening is immediately unusual: neroli and oakmoss with a thick ambergris base already asserting itself.
The heart carries hay and honey-amber without sweetening — this is warm but never gourmand. The drydown is deep, dirty musk and vanilla that smells uncannily like skin rather than perfume. Projection is moderate, longevity strong. A polarizing fragrance: either it reads as intimate and addictive or as outright unclean. Meant for adults with confident olfactory preferences and no interest in compliments from strangers.
Scent twins
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