Dark Horse
Cinnamon arrives immediately, sharp and warm, with lemon and bergamot lending a brief citrus contrast that prevents the spice from feeling heavy at first impression.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon arrives immediately, sharp and warm, with lemon and bergamot lending a brief citrus contrast that prevents the spice from feeling heavy at first impression.
Jasmine and rose enter at the heart, a classic floral pair softened against the cinnamon's persistence. The flowers pick up a slightly powdered quality, while cinnamon continues to dominate, lending a warm-spicy lacquered feel to the bouquet. Lavender and a faint aldehydic quality contribute to a polished texture.
The base brings guaiac wood, vetiver, vanilla, and musk — guaiac's smoky-incense facet adding a quiet darkness, vanilla rounding the cinnamon to dessert-adjacent without going gourmand. Overall the character is a cinnamon-floral-woody, cool-weather-friendly, evening, with enough warm spice to be memorable but not overwhelming in projection.
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.
