Sahel
Tobacco leads the opening with its characteristic dry, slightly sweetened leafy quality — forward and unambiguous about what this fragrance prioritizes.
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.
- Honey50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Honey
- Sandalwood
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco leads the opening with its characteristic dry, slightly sweetened leafy quality — forward and unambiguous about what this fragrance prioritizes. Honey follows in the heart, adding a rich, warm sweetness that softens the tobacco without domesticating it.
Sandalwood in the base brings a creamy, slightly milky warmth, while Madagascar vanilla adds depth and rounds out the sweetness. Amber holds the base together and extends the longevity with a diffuse warmth.
The overall character is a warm, cozy tobacco-honey accord — more comfortable than dark, leaning sweet in the dry-down. The combination of honey and vanilla with tobacco is familiar and accessible, suited to casual or evening wear when something warm and comforting is the goal.
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.
