Imperial Leather
Raspberry bursts first, a tart berry brightness cut by saffron’s dry iodine edge and thyme’s green sting, creating a bittersweet aromatic flash that clings to skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Jasmine
- Olibanum
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry bursts first, a tart berry brightness cut by saffron’s dry iodine edge and thyme’s green sting, creating a bittersweet aromatic flash that clings to skin. The heart swaps fruit for petals: jasmine’s indolic cream melts into olibanum’s cool, lemon-tinged resin, turning the opening snap into a smoky floral incense that feels like brushed suede under low light. Leather arrives early, pulling the fruity-resinous accord onto a soft hide that’s been dusted with ambered warmth; suede amplifies the nap, blotting excess sweetness and leaving a matte, papery skinis. Over hours the leather relaxes, exhaling a mild tobacco-toned breath while amber glows quietly at the pulse. Sillage stays within arm’s length, projecting for roughly six hours before settling into a clean skin-leather whisper that favors cool autumn nights and smart-casual settings where polish still allows a little rebel crackle.
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.