Inverno Russo
Gardenia dominates the heart, its creamy white-petal mass already laced with sweet balsamic benzoin that drags the flower into candied territory.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Balsamic80
- Animalic80
- White Floral75
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Civet
- Olibanum
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia dominates the heart, its creamy white-petal mass already laced with sweet balsamic benzoin that drags the flower into candied territory. A snap of cardamom and clove pricks the cream, while olibanum smoke curls underneath, turning the bouquet faintly waxy and church-incense dark. Civet arrives early, musking the sandalwood and tonka, so the mid-stage smells like loukoum spilled on fur—honey-rich, faintly urinous, never clean. Virginia cedar sharpens the dry-down, shaving off the confection and leaving a dry, resinous amber-tobacco trail that still carries the ghost of gardenia's butter. Projection stays within arm's length for eight hours; heat amplifies the animalics, so keep it for cool fall nights or a fireside date.
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.
