A small fragrance house, built one accord at a time
Sillage began in 2014 in a shophouse on Bussorah Street, when Idris Rahman left a corporate desk to do the only thing he had ever lost hours to — building scents on a perfumer’s organ. The first year was six fragrances, blended by hand, sold to friends who became regulars.
We have never wanted to be everywhere. Everything is composed in Singapore, in small batches, using real materials wherever the budget allows — sandalwood, rose absolute, Cambodian oud — because a synthetic shortcut is always there in the dry-down if you know to look for it. We would rather make a little less and mean it.
A decade on, the house is still small on purpose. We compose for the climate we live in, so a scent that sings in a Paris winter does not collapse by noon in our humidity. Come to the atelier, talk through what you want to smell like, and we will help you find it — or, occasionally, make it.
A house, not a factory
Composed in-house
Every accord is built on our own organ in Kampong Glam — no white-label, no off-the-shelf bases.
Real materials
Rose absolute, true sandalwood and genuine oud wherever the formula calls for it.
Built for the tropics
Tuned to perform in 30-degree heat and humidity, not to fade by lunchtime.
Small batches
Poured in runs of a few dozen, so what reaches you is freshly macerated rather than aged on a shelf.
The Sillage story, in order
A shophouse on Bussorah Street
Idris leaves a corporate desk and bottles the first six house fragrances by hand for friends.
The atelier opens its doors
Walk-in consultations begin in Kampong Glam, and the discovery set is introduced so people can try before they buy.
Home & candles
The house accords are poured into soy-coconut candles and diffusers, built to fill a room slowly.
A decade, still small
Eleven fragrances, all composed in Singapore, all in small batches — and no plans to become a chain.
Who you’ll meet at the bench
Idris Rahman
Self-taught over a decade, with two years’ apprenticeship in Grasse. Idris builds every house formula and still personally signs off each batch before it is bottled.
Charmaine Soh
Charmaine runs the Bussorah Street consultations and the bespoke programme — if you want a scent for a wedding or a one-off, she is who you will sit with.
Daniel Yeo
Daniel handles maceration, filtration and the candle pours. Nothing leaves the bench until it has rested the full six weeks he insists on.
Come and smell everything
Sit with us at the atelier, or start from your sofa with a discovery set. Either way, we’d rather you find the right scent than the loudest one.