Kobako Vintage Edition
Cinnamon arrives first — dry, slightly dusty, and warm — setting the tone before gardenia, jasmine, and rose layer in.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Balsamic70
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Galbanum
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon arrives first — dry, slightly dusty, and warm — setting the tone before gardenia, jasmine, and rose layer in. The florals are lush but darkened by galbanum's green sharpness and the heaviness of oakmoss, pulling the composition toward a dense, vintage register.
Leather and civet develop as the heart settles, adding an animalic undercurrent that was common in older oriental florals. Benzoin, olibanum, and amber build a resinous, incense-like base beneath tonka and vanilla, giving the drydown a smoky, balsamic sweetness.
The result is a rich, complex oriental: floral on the surface, animalic and resinous underneath. It demands cool weather and unhurried evenings.
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.
