Fendi Theorema
Theorema opens with a spice rack warm enough to be slightly disorienting: jasmine and orange blossom jostle against cardamom and nutmeg simultaneously, the floral and spice registers activated at once rather than in sequence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Amber60
- Cinnamon55
- Floral55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readTheorema opens with a spice rack warm enough to be slightly disorienting: jasmine and orange blossom jostle against cardamom and nutmeg simultaneously, the floral and spice registers activated at once rather than in sequence. Lemon cuts through briefly before the composition properly unfolds. The heart deepens the opening's thesis — cinnamon, osmanthus, and rose, ylang-ylang's sweet-banana note threading between them.
Sandalwood, guaiac wood, and amber in the base provide a smooth woody anchor; patchouli adds dark earthiness that keeps the sweetness from becoming saccharine. The composition has a warmth that feels deliberate — spiced orientalism executed with the confidence of a fashion house that knows exactly what it's doing.
Discontinued but consistently sought after, and easy to understand why.
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Scent twins
In this family
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