Imperial Wood
A dense, smoky opening: tobacco, dry thyme, and damask rose collide so the rose reads like petals scattered over an ashtray rather than a perfumery bouquet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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 Spicy85
- Tobacco75
- Smoky70
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Spicy Notes
- Tobacco
- Thyme
- Damask Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readA dense, smoky opening: tobacco, dry thyme, and damask rose collide so the rose reads like petals scattered over an ashtray rather than a perfumery bouquet. The first impression is unapologetically dark and resinous.
Development unfolds slowly through cinnamon, clove, and cardamom layered over cocoa, vanilla, and frankincense. The cocoa keeps the spice from going dry, while frankincense lends a churchy haze. Sandalwood and tonka give the heart a balsamic creaminess that ties the smoke to the sweetness.
Drydown settles into amberwood and leather brushed with residual frankincense smoke, warm and tannic. Heavy, cold-weather material with strong projection in the first hours.
Scent twins
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