Ambre Gris
Ambre Gris opens with sage and pink pepper — an aromatic, slightly medicinal clarity that gives the incense heart something cool to burn through.
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.
- Amber85
- Tuberose50
- Salty30
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Pink Pepper
- Incense
- Tuberose
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readAmbre Gris opens with sage and pink pepper — an aromatic, slightly medicinal clarity that gives the incense heart something cool to burn through. The incense here isn't churchy or heavy; it reads more resinous, like heated wood and dried plant matter. Tuberose joins it in the heart, a pairing that could have been troubling but instead gives the composition a waxy floral warmth that keeps it from reading entirely ascetic.
The base is the focal point. Ambergris brings a salt-warm dryness that underlies the benzoin and tonka, giving sweetness a material edge rather than a confectionery one. Cedar keeps the structure upright. It dries to a sophisticated mineral-ambery skin scent — the kind of thing that smells different on different people, which is precisely the point. Quiet but not short on ideas.
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.
