Ambre Saba
Olibanum opens dry and citrus-tinged, its resin crackling like pine needles on skin.
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.
- Vanilla60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Black Pepper
- Ambergris
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum opens dry and citrus-tinged, its resin crackling like pine needles on skin. Black pepper arrives within minutes, cutting the incense with a hot, metallic snap that keeps the heart from ever feeling creamy. By the second hour, ambergris layers a salty, skin-like musk under the still-warm pepper while Madagascar vanilla folds in slowly, not sweet but waxy, stretching the balsamic trail into something that smells like driftwood soaked in frankincense butter. The dry-down stays close to the body, a quiet glow of peppered amber that persists for roughly six hours before collapsing into a soft, slightly mineral skin veil. Projection remains polite; office-safe yet intriguing after dark.
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.
