Ambre Khandjar
With no top phase, the composition opens directly into the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla70
- Yellow Floral60
- Balsamic60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
By the editors · 2 min readWith no top phase, the composition opens directly into the heart. Ylang-ylang and vanilla pair immediately — banana-creamy floralcy met with smooth resinous sweetness — to form a dense, almost narcotic central accord.
Mid-development extends rather than evolves. Plum layers a stewed-fruit darkness behind the ylang and vanilla, with mandarin contributing a brief citrus shimmer before fading.
The base is where it broadens: sandalwood and benzoin form a creamy resinous backbone, while patchouli adds a damp earthy thread that prevents the composition from going syrupy. Smoke creeps slowly from the benzoin. Overall character is a vanilla-ylang amber, plum-shaded and patchouli-grounded — dense, sweet, slightly smoky, cold-weather wear.
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.
