Desperado
Cedar opens Desperado with dry wood shavings that snap against bright lemon and bitter galbanum, creating a green-citrus snap that feels like crushed pine needles under sun-warmed bark.
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.
- Woody70
- Green60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Lemon
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Cocoa
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens Desperado with dry wood shavings that snap against bright lemon and bitter galbanum, creating a green-citrus snap that feels like crushed pine needles under sun-warmed bark. The heart folds cocoa powder into orange blossom, turning the citrus brightness into a muted, slightly dusty chocolate floral while patchouli adds a camphorous earthy thread that keeps the cocoa from turning dessert. Ginger warms the base, its fresh spice lifting sandalwood's creaminess so that ambergris and amber meet in a salty, skin-close glow rather than heavy sweetness. On skin the opening green crackle lasts twenty minutes before the cocoa-patchouli accord dominates, then relaxes into a soft amber-musk halo that sits just inside personal space for the remainder of the wear. Projection stays office-polite; the composition reads coolest in fall and early spring when its green-wood top needs outside air to breathe.
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.
