Behind Closed Doors
Pineapple and magnolia open bright yet syrupy, the tropical fruit’s sugar amplified by blood orange zest while bergamot keeps the top from collapsing into jam.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Fruity70
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Magnolia
- Blood Orange
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Leather
- Cumin
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple and magnolia open bright yet syrupy, the tropical fruit’s sugar amplified by blood orange zest while bergamot keeps the top from collapsing into jam. Cinnamon and cardamom land early, their dry heat crackling against the still-lingering pineapple so that the composition feels like spiced fruit leather rather than classic amber. Leather arrives dusty, not glossy, stitched to cumin’s sweaty facet so the heart smells of saddle reins left in the sun. Incense and civet smolder through the base, the civet’s musky butter softening cedar’s splinters and letting vanilla-honey pool underneath without turning dessert-like. Eight hours in, pink pepper fizz re-ignites the cinnamon, projecting a low, resinous hum that stays within arm’s length and favors cool evenings.
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.
