Palissandre d'Or
The opening is all spice—not sweet bakery cinnamon, but the sharp, resinous heat of whole bark and crushed pink peppercorns.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Sandalwood75
- Cedar70
- Black Pepper65
- Musk50
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is all spice—not sweet bakery cinnamon, but the sharp, resinous heat of whole bark and crushed pink peppercorns. It feels deliberate and restrained, like stepping into a workshop lined with raw wood and bundled spices. Within minutes, nutmeg adds a slightly narcotic warmth that softens the edges without dulling the brightness.
The woods emerge slowly, and they're the real story here. Sandalwood and cedar create a pale, creamy backdrop that lets the spices remain visible rather than drowning them. Patchouli adds a faint earthiness, while ambroxan keeps everything hovering just above the skin—clean, modern, never heavy. This is rosewood reimagined through a contemporary lens: warm but precise, spiced but not exotic.
It suits someone who wants presence without volume, warmth without sweetness. The kind of fragrance that reads as expensive wood rather than expensive perfume.
