Arabian Horse
Arabian Horse opens with a sharp, warm cinnamon that announces itself plainly before tobacco and labdanum pull the composition toward something darker and more resinous.
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.
- Balsamic60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Tobacco
- Osmanthus
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readArabian Horse opens with a sharp, warm cinnamon that announces itself plainly before tobacco and labdanum pull the composition toward something darker and more resinous. The osmanthus reads fruity-leathery rather than overtly floral, weaving into the tobacco without sweetening it much. Olibanum adds a dry ecclesiastical edge throughout the heart.
As it dries, cedar and vetiver give the base structure, while patchouli adds earthy depth beneath the vanilla's restrained sweetness. The overall impression is a dry, tobacco-forward oriental — amber-warm but not candy-sweet. Musk keeps it anchored to skin. Better suited to cool weather and evenings than anything bright or casual.
Scent twins
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