Un bois sépia
Un bois sépia opens with the dense, almost medicinal bite of vetiver and oakmoss — damp, forest-floor darkness before anything softer appears.
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.
- Mossy80
- Smoky70
- Animalic60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readUn bois sépia opens with the dense, almost medicinal bite of vetiver and oakmoss — damp, forest-floor darkness before anything softer appears. There is no bright opening here; it moves straight into its own shadow.
As it settles, opoponax brings a resinous, slightly sweet warmth that tempers the earthiness, while patchouli adds depth without going sweet. Castoreum contributes a dry, faintly animalic suede quality that keeps the composition grounded in something raw.
The overall effect is a cold, mossy chypre leaning into old forest and smoke rather than conventional amber sweetness. Dense, still, and uncompromising — best worn when warmth is scarce.
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.
