X-Centric
The opening is a bracing spice-and-citrus collision, grapefruit cutting against cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg with clary sage adding a herbal-sage lift.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
- Cedar
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a bracing spice-and-citrus collision, grapefruit cutting against cardamom, cinnamon and nutmeg with clary sage adding a herbal-sage lift. It reads polished but busy in the first minutes.
The heart shifts towards a refined floral-wood centre, freesia and rose lending a quiet brightness while cedar gives the composition an angular dry-wood spine. The transition from spice to flower happens through warmth rather than abrupt steps.
Sandalwood, guaiac, patchouli and ambergris build the base into a smooth, slightly leathery amber-wood close. Overall the character is a sophisticated spicy-woody, dressed-up but not heavy, working comfortably across cooler months and office or evening wear.
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.