Champaca Absolute
Champaca Absolute opens with a brief flare of bergamot before the champaca bloom itself takes center stage—honeyed, creamy, and faintly banana-like in its indolic richness.
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.
- Floral85
- Woody65
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readChampaca Absolute opens with a brief flare of bergamot before the champaca bloom itself takes center stage—honeyed, creamy, and faintly banana-like in its indolic richness. This is champaca as pure floral narcotic, not sweetened or diffused by citrus overtures. The jasmine and violet reinforce the tropical lushness without overwhelming it, adding greenness and powder in equal measure.
As it settles, sandalwood and vanilla create a plush, musky-sweet base that feels opulent without tipping into dessert territory. The amber lends warmth but never becomes resinous or heavy. What remains is a high-gloss white floral with serious tenacity, suited to those who want their flowers full-bodied and unapologetic.
This wears best in warm weather or on skin that can handle density. It's not for minimalists, but for anyone drawn to champaca's peculiar mix of elegance and earthy sweetness, it delivers exactly what the name promises.
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.
