Noir d'Orient
Cinnamon and incense open in tandem — warm spice met by smoky resin, an immediately oriental opening with no preamble.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Cinnamon60
- Warm Spicy60
- Rum60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Rum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and incense open in tandem — warm spice met by smoky resin, an immediately oriental opening with no preamble. Rum in the heart, alone, lends a dark-syrup boozy warmth that the cinnamon and incense both amplify.
Patchouli closes the composition out: earthy, slightly damp, a chypre shadow under the warm-spicy register. The whole thing reads as a study in heat — a perfume that smells like a fire crackling in a study. Sparse construction, but every note has work to do. Suited to deep winter, indoor evenings, when the warm-spicy register pays off.
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.