41 Burlington Arcade
A dry, smoky woody-citrus that reads as a London arcade in November — the reference is literal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA dry, smoky woody-citrus that reads as a London arcade in November — the reference is literal. Lemon and grapefruit open it with a clean astringent lift, but the citrus is already shadowed by something darker underneath.
The heart is built on cardamom and nutmeg — the spice is dry, slightly oily, and pushes the composition away from cologne territory toward something denser. There is no floral middle to soften the transition.
The drydown is the move: vetiver's rooty grass against a true smoke note, with amber warming the seams and cedar holding the architecture. Musk smooths everything close to the skin. The smoke isn't barbecue — it's chimney soot caught on a wool coat. Confident, slightly austere, designed for cold weather and indoor light.
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.
