The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Leather
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readParfum de la Nuit No. 3 opens with the barest flicker of bergamot — hardly more than a formality before the fragrance descends into its real subject. Rose appears at the heart as a structural note rather than a protagonist, softening the transition to the base. What follows is dense and nocturnal: incense, leather, and saffron build a dark, spiced warmth, with cumin adding an animalic undercurrent. Guaiac wood introduces a smoky, slightly rubbery quality alongside cedar and sandalwood. Labdanum and benzoin deepen the resinous base; styrax adds a balsamic smokiness that carries through the drydown. Built for evenings and those who treat nightfall as permission to wear something heavier than daylight allows.
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.
