Colonia Intensa
Colonia Intensa opens with a sharp, aromatic jolt—ginger and cardamom crackle together, warm but unsweetened, like crushed spices on a damp wooden counter.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Neroli
- Leather
- Benzoin
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readColonia Intensa opens with a sharp, aromatic jolt—ginger and cardamom crackle together, warm but unsweetened, like crushed spices on a damp wooden counter. The brightness feels deliberate, stripped of any soft edges. As it settles, neroli anchors the composition in a clean, slightly bitter citrus-floral haze that keeps the spice from tipping into heaviness.
The base gradually emerges as something sturdier: a dry leather accord threaded with cedar and patchouli, grounded by benzoin's faint resinous sweetness. The musk stays close to the skin, adding weight without overwhelming the aromatic frame. What remains is a polished, slightly austere cologne that balances freshness with structure.
This works best for those who want something more substantive than a traditional citrus cologne but still recognizably clean. It suits office settings, warm afternoons, and anyone who prefers restraint over loudness. The leather never snarls; it whispers.
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.
