Motia Attar
Grapefruit and bergamot open clean and tart, but the citrus phase passes quickly.
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.
- Cinnamon70
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- White Musk
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open clean and tart, but the citrus phase passes quickly. Within minutes a single dose of cinnamon takes over and dominates the heart entirely, registering as a dry, slightly hot spice rather than a baked one.
There isn't much development. White musk arrives early and remains the steady backdrop, while vanilla starts to bloom underneath without ever going syrupy. The cinnamon-vanilla-musk triangle is the whole structure.
The drydown is soft, faintly powdery, and skin-close. The composition is more attar-like than perfume-like in its simplicity — a few materials drawn out at length. Longevity outpaces projection, leaving a clean, warm-spicy residue that sits intimate after the first hour.
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.
