Ambre Essentiel
Cardamom and bergamot open together, the spice warm and immediate, the citrus bright but quickly subsumed.
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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open together, the spice warm and immediate, the citrus bright but quickly subsumed. Within minutes a resinous base begins to assert itself — sandalwood and labdanum pulling the composition toward something dense and amber-rich.
Benzoin and vanilla thicken the core, giving a honeyed, almost candied quality that the patchouli prevents from becoming cloying. Cedar adds structural dryness underneath.
The dry-down is warm and substantial — a resin-heavy amber that leans toward the balsamic end of the spectrum. It wears close to skin in its final hours, the spice receding into a soft, woody sweetness.
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.
