Gardenia & Cardamom
Gardenia leads immediately, dense and creamy, with tuberose amplifying its white-floral richness.
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.
- Yellow Floral60
- Amber60
- Floral60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia leads immediately, dense and creamy, with tuberose amplifying its white-floral richness. The opening is full and heady — magnolia adds a lighter, slightly lemony dimension that gives the composition some air.
Cardamom threads through the heart, adding a quiet spice that keeps the florals from becoming cloying. Ylang-ylang deepens the tropical quality, while jasmine and rose contribute structure rather than dominance.
Amber in the base warms everything without sweetening aggressively. The drydown retains the tuberose-gardenia core, now wrapped in soft warmth. Overall a full-bodied white floral with spice accents — better suited to cool evenings than bright summer days.
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.
