Lettre de Pushkar
Cinnamon and saffron open together with immediate warmth, the nutmeg adding a dry, slightly astringent edge that keeps the spice from reading as sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Earthy60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Nutmeg
- Cypriol
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and saffron open together with immediate warmth, the nutmeg adding a dry, slightly astringent edge that keeps the spice from reading as sweet. The opening is direct and dense.
Cypriol pulls the composition toward smoky, rooty territory as orange blossom and rose emerge underneath — the florals stay grounded rather than lifting, held in place by the resinous undertow. The combination reads as incense-adjacent without literal incense.
Vetiver in the base adds a cool earthiness that cuts through the vanilla and patchouli, preventing the drydown from becoming purely soft. The musk is restrained, letting the spice-and-earth character persist well into wear.
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.
