Umhh
Umhh opens with amberwood that feels stripped down and exposed—no sweet vanilla cushion, no incense smoke to soften it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Amber85
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Amberwood
By the editors · 2 min readUmhh opens with amberwood that feels stripped down and exposed—no sweet vanilla cushion, no incense smoke to soften it. The material sits close to skin, radiating a dry, almost mineral warmth that suggests sun-baked rock more than classical amber.
As it settles, a subtle salinity emerges, threading through the wood like perspiration or sea spray caught in driftwood. The effect is restrained, almost austere, with none of the plush comfort typically associated with amber fragrances. It stays linear, maintaining that taut, skin-like quality rather than blooming into something richer.
This suits someone drawn to fragrance as second skin rather than statement—minimalists who want warmth without decoration, or those fatigued by the sweetness that dominates contemporary woody scents. It whispers rather than announces.
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.
