Sweet Amber
Saffron, galbanum and bergamot open in an unusual combination — saffron's leathery warmth against galbanum's biting green and bergamot's citrus lift.
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.
- Floral65
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, galbanum and bergamot open in an unusual combination — saffron's leathery warmth against galbanum's biting green and bergamot's citrus lift. The opening reads simultaneously sharp and dense.
A wide floral heart follows — jasmine, ylang-ylang, heliotrope, lily of the valley, violet and rose. Heliotrope adds almond-powder, the white florals stack into a creamy bouquet, and violet contributes a powdered floral edge. The middle is broad and slightly retro, with no fruit to lighten it.
Sandalwood, guaiac wood, vetiver, cedar and patchouli close the composition with a dry woody-earthy drydown. Guaiac adds smoky sweetness, the other woods structure. Overall the arc is a green-into-floral-into-dry-wood composition, more wooded than amber despite the name.
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.