Perfume Calligraphy
Cinnamon, lemon, and cardamom open hot and bright in tandem.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon60
- Woody60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Myrrh
- Saffron
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon, lemon, and cardamom open hot and bright in tandem. The cinnamon is forward and dry, the cardamom cool and green, the lemon adding a quick citric lift. The opening immediately signals warm oriental.
The heart turns resinous: myrrh, saffron, and rose. Myrrh brings sticky balsamic darkness, saffron its leathery-metallic spice glow, and rose a jammy floral weight. The development is dense and unmistakably oriental, with little air or transparency.
Amber, patchouli, and musk in the base finish balsamic and earthy. Amber's golden resin sweetness deepens the cinnamon-myrrh axis, patchouli adds chocolate-earth depth, and musk extends longevity. Overall: a rich, spice-and-resin oriental with rose and saffron accents — an old-school masculine-leaning warm composition, built for cold weather and evening wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
