Moving Dunes
Cinnamon and incense open with a warm, smoky spiciness that immediately establishes a resinous and aromatic character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and incense open with a warm, smoky spiciness that immediately establishes a resinous and aromatic character. Sandalwood and vetiver emerge next, providing a dry, woody heart that is subtly enriched by earthy patchouli and a hint of dry tobacco leaf. The dry-down shifts significantly as leather and benzoin add a supple, balsamic texture, while amber and vanilla impart a soft, sweet resinousness that balances the earlier dryness. This composition evolves steadily over several hours from a spicy aromatic opening to a warm, ambery leather base with moderate projection. Best suited for cool weather evenings, it maintains a personal scent bubble after the first hour of wear.
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.
