1869 Eau de Parfum
Cardamom opens with a cool, aromatic spice that crackles briefly before leather slides in, matte and pliable, pulling the spice into a darker register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Iris
- Incense
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a cool, aromatic spice that crackles briefly before leather slides in, matte and pliable, pulling the spice into a darker register. Iris arrives next, dusting the leather with a cool, violet-tinged powder that softens the hide and adds a slightly cosmetic sheen. As the heart settles, vetiver cuts through with dry, grassy smoke, while incense and labdanum build a resinous, slightly sweet haze that clings to the leather like campfire on a jacket. Vanilla and amber warm the base, turning the composition supple and softly balsamic without surrendering its smoky backbone. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. The dry-down is a smoked-leather skin scent, best worn in cool weather when its tarry iris can breathe.
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.
