Refined Woods
Cardamom and clary sage open with a cool, softly spicy bite that feels crisp against skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Lavender
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and clary sage open with a cool, softly spicy bite that feels crisp against skin. Lavender arrives next, its clean herbal oil shearing the spice into a sheer aromatic layer, while iris adds a faintly powdery iris dust that keeps the heart matte rather than sweet. Tonka bean folds in a light coumar warmth, but vetiver's dry grass and earth dominate the base, anchoring the fragrance in muted woods. The composition stays close, projecting no more than arm's length for about five hours before collapsing into a faint nutty skin trail. Cool evenings and office air-conditioning fit its restrained presence; heat amplifies the iris powder and can turn it chalky. Overall character is polite, grey-tinged woods with a transparent aromatic veil—safe, versatile, deliberately quiet.
Scent twins
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