Series 5: Sherbet - Cinnamon
Cinnamon dominates the opening, immediately announcing itself as dry, woody bark rather than sweet bakery spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Cinnamon90
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, immediately announcing itself as dry, woody bark rather than sweet bakery spice. Vetiver follows within minutes, lending a cool, grassy smoke that keeps the cinnamon from turning gourmand; the two notes lock together in a warm-woody accord that feels more like a spice market than a dessert plate. Benzoin and musk arrive in the base, stretching the spices over a matte, skin-hugging resin layer that softens projection while extending wear. Saffron threads a faint leather nuance through the heart, flickering between medicinal and metallic, while bergamot adds only a brief, candied lift before vanishing. The overall arc stays linear: dry cinnamon bark over vetiver smoke, slowly collapsing into a musky, resin-dusted skin scent that lasts close to the body for most of a workday.
Scent twins
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