Cimabue (Italian Journey no. 8)
Neroli opens bright and honeyed, quickly wrapped by cardamom’s green sparkle and bergamot’s crisp zest, creating a citrus-floral shimmer that feels Mediterranean.
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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens bright and honeyed, quickly wrapped by cardamom’s green sparkle and bergamot’s crisp zest, creating a citrus-floral shimmer that feels Mediterranean. Cinnamon seizes control in the heart, melting into tuberose’s creamy rubber and jasmine’s indole, while saffron dusts the florals with iodized leather and clove adds dry heat; the overall accord reads as a spicy yellow-floral stew edged with smoke. As the bouquet settles, sandalwood’s buttery carve smooths the spices, benzoin and vanilla pour soft caramel, and opoponax contributes a myrrh-like resin that keeps the base faintly incense-lit rather than syrupy. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours before collapsing to a skin-glaze of ambered woods, making it wearable office-safe yet still statement-making. Cool fall days and smart-casual gatherings suit its warm floral character best.
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.
