Cialenga
Cialenga opens with a sharp black currant edge that quickly softens into a dense floral heart.
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.
- Floral80
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readCialenga opens with a sharp black currant edge that quickly softens into a dense floral heart. Jasmine and ylang-ylang dominate, lending a heady, almost narcotic richness, while lily of the valley and iris pull it back toward powder and green coolness. Clove threads through the flowers with a quiet, dry spice.
The base deepens into oakmoss and patchouli, giving the composition a distinctly earthy, mossy foundation characteristic of its era. Vetiver adds a faint smokiness, and sandalwood and cedar smooth the whole structure without sweetening it.
The overall effect is dense, green-floral with powdery iris and a dry mossy finish — serious and structured rather than soft or feminine in the modern sense.
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.
