New York Sandalwood
Iris and cardamom open together, the spice cutting through the cool, rooty orris without overwhelming it.
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.
- Mossy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Papyrus
- Fig
By the editors · 2 min readIris and cardamom open together, the spice cutting through the cool, rooty orris without overwhelming it. There is an almost powdery chill in the first minutes, like pressed petals against stone.
Sandalwood arrives in the heart, creamy and dry at once, anchored by papyrus — a slightly paperlike, green-woody texture — and a subdued fig that keeps things from turning sweet. The composition stays balanced between soft warmth and restrained earthiness.
Oakmoss and amber in the base deepen the drydown into something genuinely mossy and resinous. Musk keeps projection close. This reads as a cool-weather iris-wood study with good structural coherence.
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.
