Malmaison
Cinnamon dominates the opening, a dry bark spice sharpened by lemon that scatters clove’s medicinal heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Rose60
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Clove
- Lemon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, a dry bark spice sharpened by lemon that scatters clove’s medicinal heat. The heart folds ylang ylang’s banana-sweet custard into a velvet rose, turning the spice into a floral balsamic glow rather than bakery warmth. Cedar and patchouli take over within an hour, stripping the creaminess to matte woods dusted with musk while vanilla keeps a thin amber skin. Projection stays polite, a low-hovering cloud that reads as Victorian potpourri, perfect for cool autumn offices or evening theatre.
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