Déclaration Parfum
Déclaration Parfum dispenses with top notes and arrives immediately at the heart: cumin and cardamom together, an accord that's warm, body-adjacent, and assertively aromatic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Cardamom
- Amberwood
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readDéclaration Parfum dispenses with top notes and arrives immediately at the heart: cumin and cardamom together, an accord that's warm, body-adjacent, and assertively aromatic. The cumin is the signature — that note which divides opinion cleanly between those who find it unwearably close and those who find it one of the most characterful notes in perfumery. At parfum concentration, it's delivered without apology.
The base is the concentré's contribution: amberwood and benzoin over leather and vetiver, cedar providing structure, the whole yielding a rich, smoky-woody foundation that transforms the cumin into something more refined and lasting over hours. The leather here is dry and dignified rather than animalic.
A masculine that requires confidence to wear. Rewards the wearer who commits.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
