Chiron
Tonka bean opens with a warm, slightly nutty sweetness that immediately blankets the skin in a soft, powdery veil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
- Ambergris
- Tobacco
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean opens with a warm, slightly nutty sweetness that immediately blankets the skin in a soft, powdery veil. Ambergris enters within minutes, lending a salty, skin-like marine edge that cuts the tonka’s richness while amplifying musk’s clean radiance. Tobacco emerges in the heart, not as smoky leaf but as a dry, softly sweet hay that meshes with the remaining tonka to create a creamy, almost almond-like accord. Sandalwood in the base steers the blend toward a supple, milky wood that lingers close, never turning sharp or austere. The fragrance stays linear, moving from sweet pod to salty skin to blond wood without dramatic shifts, projecting at arm’s length for the first three hours then settling into a washable skin scent. Cool evenings and travel days suit its quiet, cocooning presence; it performs best when humidity is low.
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.
