Chicago High
Vilhelm Parfumerie draws its name and its songs-as-fragrances concept from a Swedish artistic sensibility, but Chicago High draws from the city's jazz and blues tradition — the late-night warmth of it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tobacco65
- Honey55
- Amber55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Bergamot
- Honey
- Tobacco
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readVilhelm Parfumerie draws its name and its songs-as-fragrances concept from a Swedish artistic sensibility, but Chicago High draws from the city's jazz and blues tradition — the late-night warmth of it. Pineapple and bergamot open with tropical brightness that doesn't linger before the composition gets more serious. The heart is the point: honey and tobacco together, which smells exactly like late nights in low lighting — something sticky and sweet riding on something smoky and dry.
Leather, amber, and patchouli build the base into a proper oriental close. Not an aggressive leather — more the worn surface of a club banquette than anything confrontational. Amber and patchouli add depth and a slight earthiness that grounds the sweetness overhead. For an indie fragrance this is unusually coherent; the tobacco-honey pairing at the heart earns its high-concept name.
Scent twins
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