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Etro · Est. 1999

Etra Etro

Etra opens with a single note of cardamom — warm, slightly sweet, faintly medicinal in the way good cardamom always is, setting a Middle Eastern-inflected tone from the outset.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released1999
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
1999 · Fragrance
san·jas·ros·car
Rating
4.1
1.4k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Sandalwood
    60
  • Jasmine
    50
  • Rose
    50
  • Cardamom
    50
  • Vanilla
    40

By the editors · 2 min readEtra opens with a single note of cardamom — warm, slightly sweet, faintly medicinal in the way good cardamom always is, setting a Middle Eastern-inflected tone from the outset. The heart takes an unusual structural approach: sandalwood and cedar appear alongside jasmine and rose, making the woody element central rather than supporting, giving the florals a dry, resinous foundation that prevents them from reading as conventional.

Vanilla and musk in the base provide a quiet, warm finish that doesn't overstay its welcome. Etra is compact in its construction but generous in character — a quietly distinguished oriental that earns attention through coherence rather than complexity.

Filed: EtroSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap