Tabac Santal
Ginger, rum, lime, cardamom, bergamot, and nutmeg open with a busy warm-citrus-spicy accord.
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.
- Rum80
- Tobacco60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Rum
- Lime
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readGinger, rum, lime, cardamom, bergamot, and nutmeg open with a busy warm-citrus-spicy accord. Rum adds syrupy depth, ginger and cardamom contribute dry sparkle, citrus lifts everything from going too heavy. The opening reads boozy and atmospheric.
Lavender, olibanum, tobacco, and rose shape an unusual heart that mixes aromatic cleanliness with smoky resin. Tobacco emerges as the loudest middle voice, leafy and sweet, while olibanum smokes underneath and rose adds floral lift.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, vetiver, labdanum, patchouli, and cedar build a dense woody-mossy-resinous base. Overall character: a tobacco-sandalwood oriental with significant complexity and warmth, suited to cool-weather evening wear and dressier occasions. Strong projection through the heart, slowly settling into a creamy-mossy drydown.
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.
