Cuba Authentic Bold
Opens unusually with tonka bean placed in the top — its warm hay-sweetness paired against apple's clean crisp fruit and lemon's tart citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Sweet60
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Apple
- Lemon
- Cinnamon
- Sage
- Lavender
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readOpens unusually with tonka bean placed in the top — its warm hay-sweetness paired against apple's clean crisp fruit and lemon's tart citrus. The combination reads immediately distinctive, a sweet-fruit-citrus blend that suggests a comforting register from the start.
The heart layers complexity: cinnamon's dry warm spice, sage's herbal-camphorous lift, lavender's dry petal, patchouli's earthy depth, and iris's cool powder all stack together. The middle is the perfume's most ambitious movement — five textures pulling between warm spice, herbal cool, and powdered floral-earth.
Amber, vanilla, and musk close the drydown with a creamy-sweet oriental base. The finish reads as a powdered sweet amber with a faint patchouli underline — comforting, slightly retro, lingering on skin. Projection moderate; longevity strong.
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.
