Soul
The opening strikes with bright cardamom heat tempered by pink pepper's rosy bite, a fleeting spice-lit prelude before the fragrance settles into its true character.
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.
- Leather45
- Oud35
- Vanilla30
- Cardamom25
- Patchouli25
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with bright cardamom heat tempered by pink pepper's rosy bite, a fleeting spice-lit prelude before the fragrance settles into its true character. Almost immediately, a smooth leather note emerges, neither harsh nor overly animalic, woven through with oud that reads more as polished wood than barnyard intensity. This is leather as second skin rather than motorcycle jacket.
The base anchors everything in creamy vanilla and earthy patchouli, while ambergris lends a subtle marine warmth that keeps the composition from turning too sweet or heavy. The overall effect is unexpectedly wearable, balancing Costume National's typical minimalist aesthetic with enough richness to carry through a long evening.
Best suited to someone drawn to modern leather fragrances but wary of their often polarizing edges—this one plays it composed, almost meditative, letting each element breathe without demanding attention.
