Terrible Teddy
Terrible Teddy opens with a sharp, resinous incense that feels more Anglican church than Moroccan souk—clean, austere, slightly medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Leather40
- Incense35
- Cedar15
- Amber10
By the editors · 2 min readTerrible Teddy opens with a sharp, resinous incense that feels more Anglican church than Moroccan souk—clean, austere, slightly medicinal. The leather emerges within minutes, dry and supple rather than animalic, like a well-worn saddle stored in a cedar-lined room. There's an old-world formality to the pairing, as if someone dressed an Edwardian gentleman in modern materials.
The ambroxan base lends a transparent, almost mineral quality that keeps the composition from feeling heavy despite its serious materials. This isn't leather as fetish object but leather as heritage craft—something passed down, maintained, respected. It wears close and deliberate.
Best suited to those who appreciate restrained woody orientals and don't mind being read as quietly eccentric. The name suggests whimsy, but the fragrance itself is surprisingly grown-up and composed.
