Spirit Of Japan
Gardenia introduces a creamy white floral opening, immediately complicated by warm cinnamon and a distinct anise note that lends a licorice-like aromatic sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Cinnamon
- Anise
- Cumin
- Labdanum
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia introduces a creamy white floral opening, immediately complicated by warm cinnamon and a distinct anise note that lends a licorice-like aromatic sweetness. Cumin emerges in the heart, adding a savory, slightly animalic warmth that intertwines with the resinous depth of labdanum and the powdery almond quality of heliotrope. Sandalwood provides a smooth woody base, complemented by ambergris's salty musk and benzoin's vanillic sweetness, while patchouli adds an earthy grounding and styrax contributes a balsamic richness. This complex blend shifts significantly on skin, moving from a spicy floral opening to a deeply resinous, musky dry-down with substantial projection that fills personal space. Best reserved for cool weather evenings or formal occasions, its bold character requires confidence to wear. Longevity is exceptional, lasting well beyond twelve hours with a potent sillage that remains noticeable throughout.
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.
