Narcotic Bohemic
Clove and cardamom crackle open, hot and dry, while clary sage adds a cool green lift that keeps the spice from turning sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Tobacco60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Cedar
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readClove and cardamom crackle open, hot and dry, while clary sage adds a cool green lift that keeps the spice from turning sweet. Cedar enters early, its clean wood grain soaking up the espresso roast of coffee that follows, turning the heart into a dark-roast accord edged with smoke. Tonka bean softens the transition, letting leather and vetiver take over as the coffee recedes; the leather is matte, not shiny, and vetiver’s earthy root anchors the base. Tobacco leaf folds in last, dry and cured, extending the roasted wood theme into a quiet, skin-close hum that lasts office hours. Projection stays within handshake radius; the scent reads autumn through early spring, smart over a wool coat or denim jacket.
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.
