Ambra Aurea
Ambra Aurea announces itself with a resinous warmth that feels ancient and immediate at once—myrrh's slightly medicinal bite tempered by a golden amber that radiates from the skin rather than sitting atop it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Amber90
- Smoky55
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Myrrh
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readAmbra Aurea announces itself with a resinous warmth that feels ancient and immediate at once—myrrh's slightly medicinal bite tempered by a golden amber that radiates from the skin rather than sitting atop it. There's no sweetness in the conventional sense, just a dry, honeyed thickness that suggests incense burned in sunlit stone chambers.
As it settles, the distinction between myrrh and amber dissolves into a single molten note. The composition eschews complexity for intensity, becoming a second skin that hovers close but projects with quiet insistence. What reads as simplicity is actually precision: two materials allowed to express their full range without dilution or distraction.
This is amber for those who find most amber fragrances too candied or too safe. It suits anyone comfortable with fragrances that smell more like ritual objects than personal adornment—contemplative, slightly austere, and decidedly not for casual wear.
Scent twins
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