Eyes Closed
A compact spiced study in contrasts, six notes with no surplus.
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.
- Cinnamon55
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Ginger
- Orris
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readA compact spiced study in contrasts, six notes with no surplus. Cinnamon and cardamom open together in a warm, Middle Eastern spice register — cinnamon's familiar heat alongside cardamom's more aromatic, slightly medicinal edge. The opening is focused and deliberate.
Ginger and orris form the heart in a spiced-floral-earthy combination that generates the composition's central tension. Ginger continues the spice arc while orris (the powdery, iris-root note) introduces a cool, chalky quality. The shift from warm spice to cool powder within the heart is the most interesting moment — two registers that don't usually coexist, here held in productive discomfort.
Patchouli and papyrus close the composition. Papyrus is the unusual element — dry, reedy, faintly mineral rather than earthy, distinguishing the drydown from conventional patchouli-musk endings. Byredo's characteristic restraint: every note accountable for its presence.
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.
