L'Histoire Oubliée De Dunhuang
Orange blossom opens clean and soapy, its white-petal brightness immediately dusted by a hot swirl of cinnamon bark and earthy cumin that turns the floral into something faintly sweaty.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Warm Spicy80
- White Floral70
- Amber50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Star Anise
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens clean and soapy, its white-petal brightness immediately dusted by a hot swirl of cinnamon bark and earthy cumin that turns the floral into something faintly sweaty. The heart keeps the spice accord forward—star anise lending a black-licorice snap while rose adds a soft, jammy cushion—so the composition feels like mulled tea left to steep on skin. As the heat subsides, sandal wood-leaning sandalwood and a resinous amber-vanilla duet smooth the spices into a creamy, slightly musky skin glaze that still carries a toasted edge from the earlier cumin. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first three hours, then draws inward, making it an easy cold-weather office scent that can stretch into an evening dinner without shouting.
Scent twins
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