Boulevard Saint Germain Diptyque 2011 Eau de Toilette
Cinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling above a tart blackcurrant bud that reads almost like green gooseberry.
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.
- Cinnamon90
- Amber70
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Blackcurrant Bud
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling above a tart blackcurrant bud that reads almost like green gooseberry. Amber arrives early, softening the spice into a warm, resinous glow that carries the composition for hours. Patchouli adds a muted earthiness, keeping the amber from turning syrupy, while rose contributes a clean, tea-like floral lift that stops the base from collapsing into heaviness. On skin the scent stays remarkably linear: the cinnamon slowly loses its bite, the rose fades to a dusty outline, and the amber-patchouli tandem lingers as a skin-close wash of soft brown sweetness. Projection stays polite, creating a low, personal aura that lasts a full workday. Cool evenings in fall are its natural habitat, yet the blackcurrant snap lets it behave in early spring cool spells too.
Scent twins
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