Terre de Feu
Clove opens with immediate dry heat — peppery and sharp — before jasmine introduces a warm, slightly indolic floral counterpoint that softens the spice without erasing it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Jasmine
- Virginia Cedar
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readClove opens with immediate dry heat — peppery and sharp — before jasmine introduces a warm, slightly indolic floral counterpoint that softens the spice without erasing it. Cedar adds structure to the heart, keeping the composition from going purely floral or purely Oriental.
Tonka bean and vetiver arrive together in the base: tonka brings a sweet, slightly nutty coumarin warmth, while vetiver pulls in an earthy, rooty dryness. Tobacco sits underneath both, lending depth and a faint smokiness that anchors everything. Musk keeps the skin feel present without going heavy. The result is a warm, spicy floral-tobacco blend — compact and dry, more wearable than its composition suggests.
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.
