Otello
Cardamom opens with a bright, aromatic snap that quickly yields to roasted hazelnut, the nut’s oily sweetness pulling the spice into a soft, edible register.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Nutty90
- Honey60
- Vanilla50
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Hazelnut
- Vanilla
- Honey
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom opens with a bright, aromatic snap that quickly yields to roasted hazelnut, the nut’s oily sweetness pulling the spice into a soft, edible register. The heart stays close to skin, hazelnut dominating while a wisp of honey begins to seep underneath, adding a translucent glaze rather than full sweetness. Vanilla arrives early in the base, pairing with the honey to form a mellow ambered cushion that muffles the nut and lets patchouli’s cocoa-like earthiness peek through without turning bitter. Over hours the accord settles into a fuzzy, skin-hugging layer where hazelnut remains recognizable, now lacquered by gentle beeswax tones. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels most comfortable in cool weather, casual office days, or low-key evening cafés where edible warmth is welcome but not cloyant.
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.
