Ombre Indigo
The opening brings a peculiar tension: tuberose's creamy intensity alongside the green snap of petitgrain and a dark plum sweetness touched with saffron's metallic warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather75
- Tuberose70
- Amber65
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Tuberose
- Plum
- Saffron
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening brings a peculiar tension: tuberose's creamy intensity alongside the green snap of petitgrain and a dark plum sweetness touched with saffron's metallic warmth. It's neither floral nor fruity in the conventional sense, but something more shadowed and complex from the first moment.
As it settles, leather emerges—not the polished kind, but something softer and more lived-in, threaded through smoky frankincense and the dry, papery quality of vetiver and papyrus. The tuberose never fully disappears; it hovers beneath, lending an unexpected richness to what could have been a straightforward woody-leather construction.
The base rounds into amber and benzoin's resinous warmth, grounded by musk. Ombre Indigo reads less like traditional masculine leather and more like a study in contrasts: floral darkness, sweetness tempered by smoke, softness outlined in shadow. It suits those drawn to fragrances that resist easy categorization.
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.
