Amber Wood
Incense and labdanum open with a dry, resinous smoke that immediately coats the skin in a leathery haze.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Saffron
- Birch
- Labdanum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and labdanum open with a dry, resinous smoke that immediately coats the skin in a leathery haze. Saffron adds a faint iodine snap, sharpening the tarry birch heart that follows. The base keeps the incense alive while folding in patchouli's earthy crumble and vetiver's rooty bite, so the composition never turns sweet. Styrax and leather fuse into a matte, black-boot polish skin-scent that lingers close but lasts for hours with minimal projection. Cool evenings, dark coats, city streets.
Scent twins
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