Tenebra
Tuberose dominates from the first spray, its creamy white petals laced with heliotrope’s almond-sweet dust and the prickle of cardamom-nutmeg.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Honey50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Tuberose
- Heliotrope
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Tuberose
- Honey
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readTuberose dominates from the first spray, its creamy white petals laced with heliotrope’s almond-sweet dust and the prickle of cardamom-nutmeg. The heart doubles down: honey thickens the bloom while narcissus adds a faintly green, almost daffodil sharpness that keeps the white flower from turning cloying. As the honey recedes, sandalwood’s dry creaminess emerges, carrying the still-lingering tuberose into a soft tobacco-ambergris haze salted by labdanum. The dry-down stays floral-forward, but the ambergris lends a skin-like brine that quietly smokes the petals rather than scorching them. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours before tucking close to fabric. Cool autumn nights, silk scarf, dinner reservations.
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.
