Carbon
Carbon opens on lavender — clean, slightly soapy, more European-barbershop than purple-bouquet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Lavender65
- Patchouli55
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Clove
- Violet
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readCarbon opens on lavender — clean, slightly soapy, more European-barbershop than purple-bouquet. Within minutes a clove warmth pricks through, sharpening the herbal opening into something spicier and a touch medicinal.
Violet sits at the heart, flattening the spice and pulling everything toward a soft powdery midsection. The contrast between the cool lavender and the warmer clove-violet pair is the perfume's main move.
The drydown is patchouli and musk — earthy, dry, with a clean musk halo rather than a sweet one. Wears office-comfortable, holds into evening. A quiet aromatic for cooler weather.
Scent twins
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