SILLAGE - KINETIC

SILLAGE - KINETIC

SILLAGE is composed like a photograph with a long exposure. What to the human eye is a point becomes a line in the lens’s eye. Light takes on a physical presence, materializes and becomes permanent. The composition opens on oud notes, but not like a clear image – rather like a lingering afterimage. Agarwood usually occupies the entire space, giving the fragrance a dark nuance - in SILLAGE, the oud is a light ribbon along which the other ingredients have been laid out. Imagine a vast open landscape, steep hills closing the horizon, with crisp parallel lines cutting the picture into two equal parts. We softened the lines with subtle saffron and violet notes, which act like a gentle motion that mellows the contours, a barely perceptible vibration. SILLAGE is a fragrance balanced on the edge of impressions. Its individual elements are fluid, as if in constant motion. It carries us from the dry roughness of resins to the warm embraces of musk and vanilla with discretion and softness. A trail generally says “I came here.” The perfume boldly states “I am present,” like an aftertaste, the imprint of a body on the sheets, the emotion left by a touch.

The French word sillage denotes the wake left in the water by a sailing boat. In the context of perfume, sillage is described as a trail of fragrance that lingers in the air after someone has left. The train of a dress, a peacock’s tail, an invisible trace. Just behind you.

Perfumer: Chris Maurice (Christian Carbonnel)

TOP NOTES :
oud, violet, saffron

HEART NOTES :
olibanum, jasmine, raspberry

BASE NOTES :
suede, musk, vanilla, benzoin, amber