Chimaera
Chimaera opens with a sharp collision of peppered saffron and raw leather, softened slightly by thyme's herbal bite and a thread of lemon that quickly fades.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Thyme
- Sage
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readChimaera opens with a sharp collision of peppered saffron and raw leather, softened slightly by thyme's herbal bite and a thread of lemon that quickly fades. The impression is immediate and forceful—animal hide meeting spice market smoke. There's little hesitation before the fragrance unfurls its more complex middle, where magnolia and honey attempt to temper the leather's insistence, but the florals remain half-swallowed by frankincense and sage.
The base is dense and resinous, dominated by leather that never quite relents. Oud and labdanum create a sticky, almost tarry darkness, while caramel and tobacco add a burnt sweetness that reads more molasses than confection. Benzoin rounds the edges without softening them.
This is unabashedly heavy, better suited to cool evenings and those who find comfort in dense, enveloping scents. It demands skin that can carry weight without amplifying aggression. Not for minimalists or quiet rooms.
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.
