Ambrecuir
Amber and saffron create an opulent opening, rich with warm spice and resinous depth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tobacco60
- Honey50
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Saffron
- Tonka Bean
- Honey
- Tobacco
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readAmber and saffron create an opulent opening, rich with warm spice and resinous depth. Honey and tobacco emerge in the heart, adding a sweet, almost leathery quality that blends with suede's soft texture. The base is a complex amalgam of labdanum, opoponax, and vanilla, deepened by Mysore sandalwood and frankincense. Civet and ambergris provide an animalic undertone that grounds the sweetness with a musky warmth. This scent evolves slowly, maintaining a dense, balsamic character with significant projection. Longevity is exceptional, lasting well beyond twelve hours, ideal for formal evening wear in cold conditions.
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.
