Ébène Fumé
The pepper here doesn't snap—it smolders, darkened by incense and something vegetal that keeps the opening from feeling too polished.
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.
- Leather70
- Smoky65
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Papyrus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe pepper here doesn't snap—it smolders, darkened by incense and something vegetal that keeps the opening from feeling too polished. Within minutes, the leather emerges, but it's not the supple kind. This is stiff, resinous, almost tarry, backed by labdanum's amber-brown warmth and a papyrus note that reads more like dried grass than lush greenery. The rose, if you catch it at all, is tucked so far into the smoke you might mistake it for another facet of the wood.
What settles is a brooding, low-lit composition—guaiac's pencil-shaving sweetness tempered by something almost medicinal. It wears close and unapologetic, favoring those who prefer their woody scents austere rather than creamy. The violet leaf from the top lingers as a faint metallic edge, a reminder that this was never meant to comfort.
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.
