Empiryan
Empiryan opens dry and smoky, with tobacco leaf reading more like resin than pipe — leathery, slightly sweet, and immediately dense.
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.
- Tobacco80
- Vanilla70
- Amber70
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tobacco
- Incense
- Atlas Cedar
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readEmpiryan opens dry and smoky, with tobacco leaf reading more like resin than pipe — leathery, slightly sweet, and immediately dense. Within an hour, the cedar-and-incense heart pushes the smoke into church-cool territory, the wood holding its shape against the resinous haze.
The drydown leans heavily on labdanum and Madagascar vanilla, with patchouli sharpening the edges. The vanilla here is dark caramelized rather than dessert-sweet, and the labdanum gives it a sticky, balsamic quality that lingers close to skin.
It's a cold-weather scent that wants a heavy coat and a small room. Not a crowd-pleaser, but rewarding when the tobacco-resin combination hits.
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.
