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Cinnamon and saffron lead the opening, the cinnamon sweet-warm and the saffron adding a leathery dry-spice depth, with bergamot lifting the top with a brief citrus shimmer.
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.
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron lead the opening, the cinnamon sweet-warm and the saffron adding a leathery dry-spice depth, with bergamot lifting the top with a brief citrus shimmer. The first impression is plush and immediately spiced.
Jasmine and violet warm the heart into a powdered floral-spicy middle, the violet bringing a cool sugared edge that contrasts with the warm top. There is a faintly cosmetic quality where the violet and spice overlap.
The base is sandalwood, amber, vanilla, cedar, patchouli, and musk, a generous oriental finish with a creamy resinous warmth. The overall character is a sweet spiced amber with a powdered floral heart, evocative and slow-burning, suited to cool-weather evenings.
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.
