Manteuse
Honey opens thick and resinous, almost treacle-like, coating the skin with a waxy sweetness that immediately pulls leather into frame, the two notes fused as a single syrupy animalic panel.
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.
- Honey90
- Leather80
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readHoney opens thick and resinous, almost treacle-like, coating the skin with a waxy sweetness that immediately pulls leather into frame, the two notes fused as a single syrupy animalic panel. Sandalwood and vanilla arrive together in the heart, the wood’s dry creaminess cutting the honey’s sugar while vanilla adds a rounded custard softness that keeps the leather from turning harsh. Patchouli and styrax drive the base: patchouli brings a chocolate-brown earthiness that darkens the honey, styrax contributes a smoky incense ribbon, and musk acts as a quiet skin-magnet, collapsing the earlier projection into a low, leathery purr. After three hours the accord is a muted honeyed hide, faintly tobacco-sweet, sitting just beyond wrist-range yet lasting well into evening. Cool fall nights, dark bars, leather jacket pockets; it prefers cold air to keep the honey from cloying.
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.
