Greek Horse
Cumin snaps open with a hot, slightly sweaty edge that pierces through heliotrope's soft almond sweetness, creating an immediate spicy-marzipan tension.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCumin snaps open with a hot, slightly sweaty edge that pierces through heliotrope's soft almond sweetness, creating an immediate spicy-marzipan tension. The heart drops the heat as lavender's cool, camphoraceous stalk meets jasmine's indolic cream, sanding the spices into a clean floral plane. Sandalwood steers the dry-down, its milkwood grain soaking up vanillic amber until the skin smells like spicy cookie crumbs dusted with lavender icing. Projection stays polite for the first three hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper of sweet sandalwood ideal for close-contact fall evenings. Tenacity is modest; expect two quiet reapplications through a workday.
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.
