Emperador I
Apple opens crisp and slightly sweet, a cool green flash that quickly warms as lily’s clean pollen merges with amber’s resinous glow.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lily
- Amber
- Cedar
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readApple opens crisp and slightly sweet, a cool green flash that quickly warms as lily’s clean pollen merges with amber’s resinous glow. Cedar slices through the heart, lending dry wood that prevents the vanilla-musk base from turning syrupy, keeping the profile transparent rather than custard-rich. On skin the apple recedes within twenty minutes, letting the lily dominate for an hour before soft white musk and powdered vanilla settle close, projecting a gentle bakery-wood aura rather than loud spice. Projection stays polite, a one-foot halo that lingers five to six hours, ideal for office days when you want warmth without statement. The composition is linear once the heart arrives, yet the cedar-vanilla ratio keeps it tidy through the dry-down.
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.
