Douce amère
Opens with a jolt of absinthe-bright wormwood, bitter and aromatic, like crushed herbs on a marble counter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Vanilla
- Musk
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a jolt of absinthe-bright wormwood, bitter and aromatic, like crushed herbs on a marble counter. Within minutes the sharpness rounds into something stranger—almond-laced sweetness tangled with anise and a faint soapy cleanness that hovers between medicinal and comforting. It's the smell of old apothecary jars, of pastis poured over sugar cubes, of something both astringent and oddly nurturing.
As it settles, the bitterness never quite disappears but grows quieter, folded into a soft muskiness that feels closer to skin than perfume. The effect is intimate and slightly austere, less about beauty than about character.
This suits someone who finds lavender cologne too polite and oriental vanillas too obvious—a fragrance for those who appreciate restraint laced with edge.
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.
