The Secret Game
Cumin lands first, its dry-spice heat crackling against orange blossom’s honeyed soap to create a warm, faintly sweaty skin accord.
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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCumin lands first, its dry-spice heat crackling against orange blossom’s honeyed soap to create a warm, faintly sweaty skin accord. The heart stays close, the floral note softening the spice rather than masking it, so the composition keeps a human, sun-baked texture. Tonka bean folds in creamy, tobacco-tinged sweetness that smooths the cumin’s rough edges, while vanilla adds a rounded, edible layer. Cedar keeps the base woody-ambered instead of dessert-like, and clean musk stretches everything into a second-skin veil that hums quietly for hours. Projection stays conversational; best for cool spring evenings or a relaxed dinner date where you want intrigue without shouting.
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.