Concrete
The opening is immediate and unflinching: hot cumin and clove collide with cardamom's green rasp, creating an aroma that sits somewhere between construction dust and spice market gunpowder.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is immediate and unflinching: hot cumin and clove collide with cardamom's green rasp, creating an aroma that sits somewhere between construction dust and spice market gunpowder. There's nothing polite about it. This is the olfactory equivalent of raw materials before they've been smoothed into something wearable.
As it settles, sandalwood emerges not as creamy comfort but as pale wood shavings, slightly chalky, while musk provides a skin-like warmth that keeps the composition from floating away entirely. The spices never fully retreat—they remain gritty, mineral, deliberately industrial.
Concrete lives up to its name, capturing the scent of unfinished spaces and urban textures rather than traditional perfumery. It suits those drawn to Comme des Garçons' conceptual approach, where fragrance becomes less about seduction and more about sensory provocation. Expect puzzled looks and occasional compliments from architects.
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.
