Cœur de fille... Jeux interdits
Cardamom opens with dry warmth over a bergamot citrus lift — the spice leading, the citrus receding quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Mossy90
- Earthy80
- Patchouli70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with dry warmth over a bergamot citrus lift — the spice leading, the citrus receding quickly. The transition into the heart is where the fragrance becomes notably earthy: vetiver and patchouli together create a dense, rooty darkness, with papyrus adding a dry, slightly dusty texture.
Moss grounds the base with a cool, damp quality, reinforced by amber that adds modest warmth without sweetness. Vanilla is listed but feels subtle — this reads far more chypre-earthy than gourmand. The structure recalls an older chypre template: aromatic opener, mossy-vegetal heart, resinous base. It is an introverted fragrance that stays close to skin and rewards patience over initial 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.
