Red African
Caramel takes the lead, thick and buttery, immediately setting a confectionary tone that feels almost molten on skin.
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.
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Nutmeg
- Caramel
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCaramel takes the lead, thick and buttery, immediately setting a confectionary tone that feels almost molten on skin. Nutmeg slips in underneath, lending a warm, slightly dusty spice that keeps the caramel from tipping into pure sugar. The heart stays close to the body, a low-hum swirl of burnt sugar and kitchen spice that smells like caramel left to darken in the pan. Ambergris arrives first in the base, its salty, skin-like edge cutting the sweetness and adding a faintly mineral glow. Vanilla follows, plush and rounded, while musk drapes a clean, cottony veil that lingers longest. Projection stays modest, a warm skin-scent radius perfect for cool evenings or casual fall layering. Overall evolution is minimal; what you smell in the first hour is what remains, only quieter.
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.
