Impact Intense
Impact Intense opens with a flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to its core: a warm, resinous heart built around labdanum and amber, lifted by the dry spice of cardamom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Woody75
- Amber65
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readImpact Intense opens with a flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to its core: a warm, resinous heart built around labdanum and amber, lifted by the dry spice of cardamom. This isn't citrus freshness—the bergamot vanishes almost immediately, leaving behind something darker and more deliberate. The spice feels restrained rather than loud, tempering the sweetness of the amber without overwhelming it.
As it settles, the woods take over. Sandalwood rounds out the sharper edges of the cedars, creating a foundation that's both clean and substantial. The two cedar varieties—Atlas and Virginia—give it a pencil-shaving dryness that keeps the composition from turning too smooth or polished.
This is Tommy Hilfiger aimed at evening rather than the polo field. It works for someone who wants presence without theatrics: warm, woody, slightly formal, with enough amber to soften but not enough to turn sweet. Straightforward in its intent, competent in execution.
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.
