Sidi Bel-Abbès
Tobacco opens the composition with a dry, papery quality — not sweetened or blended but presented directly as the dominant material.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readTobacco opens the composition with a dry, papery quality — not sweetened or blended but presented directly as the dominant material. It creates an immediate impression of dryness and slight smokiness before anything else registers.
Leather reinforces that austere character, adding an animalic edge that reads raw rather than polished. Vanilla provides some contrast in the base, softening the rougher texture without resolving it into sweetness — the tobacco and leather remain in control throughout. This is a deliberately stark fragrance that makes little effort toward accessibility or balance. Dry-down changes are subtle; the composition shifts only in intensity rather than character.
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.
