1968
The opening is a brief cedar flash before saffron and chocolate take over the heart — the saffron lending a metallic warmth while chocolate sits heavier beneath it.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Tuberose
- Saffron
- Sea Salt
- Chocolate
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brief cedar flash before saffron and chocolate take over the heart — the saffron lending a metallic warmth while chocolate sits heavier beneath it. Sea salt cuts through what could otherwise become too rich, keeping things from collapsing into pure gourmand territory. Rose and tuberose are present but kept in check by the denser elements around them.
The base is warm and enveloping: tonka, amber, and vanilla layered in a way that feels deliberately luxurious without being sharp. Musk softens the edges considerably.
The overall impression is a sweet, spiced floral with an unusual salty counterbalance — more textured than most amber-vanilla constructions.
Scent twins
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