Supernova
Cinnamon crackles first, dry and hot, pulling saffron’s metallic honey along so the opening feels like scorched copper.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Oud70
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Leather
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon crackles first, dry and hot, pulling saffron’s metallic honey along so the opening feels like scorched copper. Cardamom slides in with cool green lift, preventing the spices from turning syrupy, while lavender adds a clean, barbershop snap that keeps the heart airy rather than dense. As the spices settle, vetiver threads earthy smoke through the seams, preparing the ground for leather that arrives stiff and matte, not glossy. The leather quickly absorbs the remaining warmth of cinnamon, then oud grafts on, supplying a sour, tarry wood that darkens the entire accord; the result is a dry, spiced hide scent with no sweetness left. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours and leans masculine, performing best in cool weather under a wool coat.
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.




