Red Amber
Apple and mandarin flash first, crisp and sweet, then black pepper lands with a snap that slices the fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fruity60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readApple and mandarin flash first, crisp and sweet, then black pepper lands with a snap that slices the fruit. Within minutes the spices warm up: cardamom folds into the pepper, softening its edges while keeping the pulse alive. Tonka bean slides in next, creamy and faintly almond-like, wrapping the spices in a vanillic haze that feels almost suede-soft. Vetiver threads through the dry-down, dry and grassy, stopping the accord from turning overtly gourmand and giving the amber its muted woodsmoke tint. Sillage stays polite, projecting an arm’s-length aura for about five hours before it settles into a skin-glow of sweet earth. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices fit its low-key warmth best.
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.
