Cursed
Lemon and bergamot flash bright and tart, their citric sting almost immediately swallowed by roasted hazelnut that turns the opening oily and nut-sweet.
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.
- Leather80
- Tobacco70
- Caramel60
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Hazelnut
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Tobacco
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash bright and tart, their citric sting almost immediately swallowed by roasted hazelnut that turns the opening oily and nut-sweet. Cinnamon lands hot and dry, soldering the nut to a ribbon of caramel that darkens as tobacco leaf folds in, leathery and slightly sour, creating a smoked-candy accord. Mid-stage the caramel stiffens into a resinous shell: labdanum and benzoin thicken the syrup while myrrh powders the air, and a measured splash of rum keeps the leather pliable without adding sugar. The dry-down is a matte, tar-crusted hide: leather dominates, its seams sealed by bitter myrrh and the last embers of tobacco, with only a faint trace of praline warmth clinging to the wrist.
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.
