Khol de Bahrein
Khôl de Bahrein opens with violet's cool, slightly metallic powder—not the sweet violet of candied pastilles, but something darker and more mineral, like makeup ground from ancient pigments.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Iris80
- Amber60
- Salty30
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Iris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readKhôl de Bahrein opens with violet's cool, slightly metallic powder—not the sweet violet of candied pastilles, but something darker and more mineral, like makeup ground from ancient pigments. This initial dusting gives way almost immediately to a dense, resinous heart where sandalwood and iris blur together into something between incense smoke and aged cosmetics.
The ambergris adds a saline warmth that keeps the composition from turning purely abstract. There's an animalic undertone here, subtle but persistent, like skin warmed by desert sun or the faint musk of vintage face powder left open in humid air.
The overall effect is simultaneously intimate and ceremonial—Arabian kohl liners reimagined as perfume, with all their associations of ritual adornment and timeless femininity. Best suited to those who appreciate perfumes that feel like artifacts rather than accessories, complex enough to warrant close attention but never loud.
Scent twins
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