Ottoman Empire IV
Neroli and cardamom create a bright, resinous citrus-spice opening that feels simultaneously sun-warmed and coolly metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and cardamom create a bright, resinous citrus-spice opening that feels simultaneously sun-warmed and coolly metallic. The heart layers cinnamon bark heat over saffron’s hay-like dryness, while vetiver splits the difference with its grassy smoke; orange blossom softens the spice, cedar sharpens it, and peony adds a faintly aqueous green lift. As the base emerges, sandalwood’s creamy butter folds into vanilla’s custard, ambered by labdanum-rich amber and grounded by oakmoss’s cool forest floor; cedar returns to keep the woods angular, and musk sheathes everything in clean skin. Projection stays moderate, radiating about arm’s length for six hours, ideal for crisp fall offices or cool spring evenings.
Scent twins
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