Mandarine & Cuir
Pink pepper and cardamom open with a bright, warm spice combination — cardamom's cool green-spice complementing the dry heat of pink pepper.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Leather50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom open with a bright, warm spice combination — cardamom's cool green-spice complementing the dry heat of pink pepper. The opening is clean, lively, and slightly exotic.
Vetiver anchors the base with an earthy, smoky, rooty character. Musk softens the landing and presses the composition close to skin. The transition from the warm, vibrant spice opening to the dry, earthy vetiver drydown is the most interesting aspect.
The name promises mandarin and leather, neither of which appears in the listed notes. What the listed notes describe is a spice-vetiver structure that reads as clean and slightly austere. Well-suited to casual and work occasions in cool weather.
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.
