Sakan
Orange and lemon open with a bright citrus spark, quickly warmed by cardamom’s aromatic spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cumin
- Amber
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and lemon open with a bright citrus spark, quickly warmed by cardamom’s aromatic spice. Cumin emerges in the heart, adding a savory, earthy edge that contrasts with the sweet amber accord. Coffee provides a roasted, slightly bitter nuance that deepens the middle without dominating. Vanilla and patchouli form the base, with vanilla lending sweetness and patchouli adding earthy, slightly medicinal depth. Musk ties everything together with a clean, skin-close finish. The scent evolves noticeably, starting bright and spicy before settling into a warm, resinous dry-down. Longevity is strong at seven-plus hours, best for fall or winter evenings and cooler weather.
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.
