Etra
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.
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.
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Rose
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.
Scent twins
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