Spanish Fig and Nutmeg
Clove opens with spice and warmth, immediately establishing a winter-spice register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Patchouli70
- Aromatic60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readClove opens with spice and warmth, immediately establishing a winter-spice register. Nutmeg in the heart doubles down on the spiced quality with added complexity.
Sandalwood, patchouli, and virginia cedar form the base — woody materials that give the spices a dry, aromatic context. Patchouli adds earthy depth; the cedars bring resinous structure. Note prior puts patchouli highest, with cinnamon, lavender, fresh-spicy, and aromatic scoring well — the composition likely wears more broadly aromatic than a strictly spice-driven reading suggests.
Overall this is a focused spice-woods fragrance — dry, warm, and herbal-earthy. Suited to cool weather, informal or outdoor settings where the spice character complements rather than overwhelms.
Scent twins
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