Marienbad
A nineteenth-century opera box of a perfume — bergamot and vanilla sharpen the entry but immediately give way to a dense smoke-and-resin heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Amber70
- Leather65
- Vanilla55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Bergamot
- Frankincense
- Plum
- Styrax
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA nineteenth-century opera box of a perfume — bergamot and vanilla sharpen the entry but immediately give way to a dense smoke-and-resin heart. Frankincense and styrax do the heavy lifting here, with stewed plum bringing a wine-dark sweetness against them. Rose threads through quietly, supportive rather than central.
The dry-down is where the composition fully commits: orris and labdanum powder; civet and leather animalize; patchouli and amber root the whole thing in earth. It reads richly built and unmistakably formal, a perfume designed for cold air and indoor light. Demands a deliberate occasion; rewards one.
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.
