Manrose
Cardamom alone opens it — a green-smoky pod spice that sets the temperature for everything after.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Leather70
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom alone opens it — a green-smoky pod spice that sets the temperature for everything after. Frankincense and incense rise into the heart almost immediately, the cardamom riding alongside rather than fading, so the wear stays aromatic-resinous through its middle hours.
Leather, vetiver, patchouli, amber, and musk anchor the base in a way that lands somewhere between a smoky church and a tanned-hide jacket. The leather is dry rather than suede-soft, and the patchouli pulls earth under it. It reads masculine in the modern unisex sense — built for cold weather, for evenings, for indoors. Long-wearing, present without being loud, stays close after the first hour.
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.
