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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Myrtle
- Lavender
- Orange
- Coriander
- Lemon
- Thyme
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readAmbre presents amber not as sweetness but as architecture. Myrtle, coriander, and thyme open with a dry Mediterranean herbal quality — clean and aromatic, signaling the raw material's origin in Grasse rather than its processed warmth. The transition to the heart is direct: amber and labdanum form a dense balsamic accord that incense smoke deepens and structures without dominating.
The base is warm and legible, sandalwood providing roundness to the musk, tonka adding faint sweetness without syrup. This is amber for people who find amber perfumes too confectionary — it reads as natural, almost archaeological, closer in register to frankincense than to dessert. Wears well in cool or cold weather and has enough character to hold attention without demanding it.
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.
