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Cardamom and bergamot open brisk and angular, the spice crackling against citrus oil to create a cool-aromatic flash that feels more metallic than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Black Pepper
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open brisk and angular, the spice crackling against citrus oil to create a cool-aromatic flash that feels more metallic than sweet. Sage sweeps in quickly, its fuzzy green camphor softening the edges while black pepper seeds the heart with a quiet, persistent sparkle that keeps the fragrance airborne. As the top burns off, the pepper folds into the sandalwood, turning the creamy wood dry and almost chalky, while labdanum lays down a thin amber varnish that lingers close to skin. The dry-down stays tight: no smoke, no vanilla, just sandalwood dusted with pepper and a resinous skin-scent glow. Projection stays within arm’s length for the first three hours, then settles to a quiet woody hum that works best under a crisp shirt in spring or early fall.
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.
