Comme des Garçons
The opening arrives like a sudden cloud of spice-shop air—cinnamon and cardamom in dry, almost medicinal concentration, with clove adding a dentist's-office sharpness that feels deliberately confrontational.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Woody75
- Warm Spicy70
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Cedar
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives like a sudden cloud of spice-shop air—cinnamon and cardamom in dry, almost medicinal concentration, with clove adding a dentist's-office sharpness that feels deliberately confrontational. This isn't the warm, sweet spice of comfort; it's astringent, unsettling, a deliberate provocation that marked a rupture in mid-nineties perfumery.
As it settles, cedar and sandalwood emerge through the haze, but they're never quite clean. The rose is there, smudged and smoky, less a flower than a burnt-wood memory of one. Incense winds through everything, reinforcing the temple-like quality, while honey and styrax add a resinous thickness that keeps the composition heavy and close.
This is fragrance as statement rather than seduction—austere, cerebral, unapologetically strange. It wears like a Rei Kawakubo jacket: architectural, confrontational, and utterly indifferent to whether you find it beautiful. A scent for those who want presence, not approval.
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.
